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...mere study was not enough; a true expert had to have "a sense" for fakes. One of the greatest connoisseurs he ever met was an uneducated genius who made his living running a brothel. In his spare time he hung questionable paintings on a clothesline in the house, invited Pupil Schoeller to find the fakes. "What!" he would scream when Schoeller made a mistake. "Look here. The whole corner has been painted in-and clumsily at that. See the different false shades?" Schoeller would look again, and sure enough, the entire aura of the painting seemed to change...
Billy was not the only such Baltimore pupil. Just after New Year's, 300 school janitors, firemen and custodians had gone on strike, and 123 heatless schools had been forced to close down. For 80,000 of the city's 130,000 students, the strike might have meant a long extra holiday. But General Manager D. L. (Tony) Provost of station WBAL-TV got an idea...
...fairly easy to understand why the pupils in our schools are lagging in writing [TIME, Dec. 22]. One reason is the lack of necessity to write. Every year hundreds of tests and examinations are given in the "True or False" method. The pupil is given a paper on which the questions are printed with a space after each question marked "True or False?" . . . All that is required of the pupil is to put a check mark in one or the other of open spaces! ... In the old days, at least we profited to a certain extent in learning to express...
...took the Bolsheviks ten years to proclaim their first five-year plan. Last week the eager pupil outdid the master: only three years after the Communist conquest of China, Peking proclaimed a five-year plan. Said Premier Chou Enlai: "With the national territory entirely liberated, with the exception of [Formosa], with bandits now liquidated, and with agrarian reform nearly completed . . . the time has come...
Public Schools. "We believe in our public school system. It is unfair to say that where religion is not taught in a public school, that school is secular or Godless . . . On the other hand, a way must be found to make the pupils of American schools aware of the heritage of faith upon which this nation was established . . . On no account must an educational system which is permeated by the philosophy of secularism, something quite different from religious neutrality, be allowed to gain control of our public schools . . . In some constitutional way provision should be made for the inculcation...