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...trouble with human teachers, say Wood and Pask, is that unless they are extremely good, they cannot observe in detail the intimate characteristics of each pupil. Each pupil's biases, habits and individual eccentricities determine how he should be taught. He may favor his left hand over his right hand, or be able to remember odd numbers better than even ones. An ideal teacher should take all such matters into account and teach accordingly...
Solartron's electronic teacher is set up to teach how to duplicate patterns of light in a frame containing eight lights. It starts the lessons by showing a single light. In another frame another light appears, telling the pupil which button to press. After a few such easy examples, the lessons get harder. Light patterns can be duplicated only by complicated operations with the buttons. The teacher gives clues, tells the pupil whether he is doing well or badly and makes him repeat over and over if he is making errors. Always understanding, the machine holds back a difficult...
...school libraries TIME, LIFE and Look, accused the magazines of "waging a systematic campaign to prejudice and inflame the American people against the South by presenting in their columns biased and distorted views on the institution of segregation of races in our schools." To make doubly sure that no pupil would ever be corrupted by outside opinion, the board not only ordered the schools to cancel their subscriptions but also to dispose of all back issues-including Bossier City high's 1,300 copies of LIFE dating back...
...chances are, says Green, that if a student gets an F in English he will also get an F in shop. "If students raise Cain in algebra, they break tools and bore holes in workbenches and cut off fingers." As for the much touted "valuable social experience" a pupil gets in school, "the values which are inculcated turn out to be largely these: a firm conviction that one can get by without working; an idea that quality of workmanship is of slight importance; a confirmed habit of disregarding instructions: a systematically cultivated indolence...
Primary Purpose. The school, says Green, should at last recognize that its primary purpose is academic, and that practical and social skills can be learned elsewhere. Every pupil needs and should get as much academic training as possible, but if he refuses to learn, he should not be allowed "to interfere with . . . those who want it . . . When any individual reaches the stage of interfering with the good workmanship of others, he should be withdrawn from school . . . A school should not be diverted from great constructive ends to picayune, sentimental, and retrogressive side issues; it should not sacrifice a major quality...