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Your article on Superintendent Oberholtzer [TIME, Feb. 20] is a well-deserved indictment of American high-school education. It illustrated the preoccupation with methodology which paralyzes all efforts to concentrate on the basic aims of education: to pass on knowledge, to prepare the pupil intellectually and morally for his or her responsibilities as future U.S. citizens...
...philosophy and Professor Irving Babbitt, the ardent revivalist of the classic past, taught him French literature, got him interested in Sanskrit and Oriental religions (Eliot later devoted two years to their study). Bertrand Russell taught him logic and later introduced him to the London literary world as his "best pupil." Eliot breezed through his course in three years, spent the fourth year working for his M.A. But he was no bookworm. Although he was shy, he made a point of going to dances and parties: Poet Conrad Aiken, a fellow student, recalls seeing tall, dapper Tom Eliot for the first...
...adapt his curriculum as much as possible to fit his wants, abilities and needs. Explains Oberholtzer: "You can't give the same educational fare to all children, any more than you can give all Americans the same breakfast food every morning." Only by bending the curriculum to each pupil's needs, he argues, can the "schools make sense...
...Mozart, he was the victim of a pushing father who insisted that the "exceptional boy" bring fame & fortune to the family by becoming a virtuoso pianist. When young Cesar began to teach, Franck pere drew up a table showing the exact time it should take Cesar to get from pupil to pupil, then back home again to his practice. When the young man insisted on composing as well as performing, father Franck brashly had Cesar dedicate his first published music to King Leopold I, hoping for Belgian royal favor. None came; so the family moved back to Paris, where Cesar...
...insistent urging of his pupil, U.S. Violinist Alexander Schneider, had finally moved Casals to agree to play "in the town of my exile." Next June, in the Cathedral of St. Pierre, Casals will lead an orchestra largely recruited among U.S. musicians. Violinists Schneider, Joseph Szigeti and Isaac Stern, Pianists Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Rudolf Serkin and Casals himself will be among the soloists. When the festival is over, Cellist Casals plans to return to his self-imposed silence...