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...Delinquent Teachers": please add harassed parents to the list of long-suffering chambers of commerce, corporations and tourist bureaus which would like to staunch the flow of booklet-type assignments by teachers. In the elementary grades particularly, these booklets must be liberally laced with pictures to be acceptable. Pupil A must have as many (or more) pictures as pupil B, or pupil A's booklet won't stand a chance of being displayed on the wall...
...royal palace in Athens. During these visits young Clinton Peurifoy played freely with Queen Frederika's two children. One day Prince Constantine said to his little American friend: "My sister and I have been talking about you, and we have decided that you must be the favorite pupil of Jesus...
...Well," replied the prince, "you know how it is. In school the best pupil is always given the hardest problems to solve. God gave you the hardest problem of all, so you must be His favorite pupil...
Into the Fire. Unlike his three peers, Rank was no physician but an earnest young engineering student who was attracted into Freud's orbit in 1905 as pupil, later as secretary of the psychoanalytic inner circle. He served Freud faithfully for 20 years, finally broke away, denouncing Freud's "therapeutic nihilism." Rank's rebellion took him through many stages. In one he attached overwhelming importance to birth trauma as a source of neurotic difficulties. In another he blasted Freud's emphasis on the unconscious, called for a "psychology of the conscious." Immortality-at which Freud scoffed...
From boys and girls all over the U.S. the scrawled letters poured in, some peremptory, some urgent-all rather vague. "Dear Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce," wrote one boy from Reno. "We are reading about coal. Could you send some pamphlets and a piece of coal." A pupil in El Dorado, Ark. asked for "pictures and postcards." He did not say what sort of pictures or of what, but he did provide one pertinent bit of information: "I am in Mrs. Jackson's room." Said a brief note from Southwick, Mass.: "Will you send me all the information about your...