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...spite of this, however, Hunt cited several worthwhile features of Russian education. Free schooling is offered up to the age of 45, the pupil-teacher ratio is less than 25 to 1, and up to 15 per cent of the national budget is spent on education...
...honors program, for all four years, is highly flexible. Since students enroll for honors only in individual courses, no early commitment to an overall program is needed to take advantage of the advanced course efferings. Mathematics is an exception, because the pupil who wants to study calculus as a senior must accelerate all along the line...
...counselor was serious. At Horace Mann High School, a public school of about 800 in Gary, Indiana, the average pupil's load is three "solids" or academic courses. The rest of his school time is spent in study hall, physical education, or "specials" ranging from dramatics to home economics...
Some of a Zen pupil's meditation is devoted to koans -short problems without logical solutions, set by the individual's Zen master and designed to wrench the mind free of ordinary thinking. (Sample koan: "A monk asked. 'Who is Buddha?' The master answered, 'Three pounds of flax.' ") Other meditation is devoted to breath control, plus a kind of concentration on nothingness and what Ruth Sasaki describes as "handling one's mind...
...first time she had heard the name Cliburn, but she invited him in and asked him to play. Says Mrs. Lhevinne: "Right then I said. 'This is an unbelievable talent.' His mother had taught him very well indeed." She took him as a pupil, and he took the Juilliard's "diploma," or conservatory course (as opposed to the "degree" course, which requires 60 semester hours of academic courses) to leave himself time for concertizing...