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Professor Whitehead was perhaps best known for two early works, written before his arrival in Cambridge--"A Treatise on Universal Algebra," (1898), and "Principia Mathematics," (1910), in which he collaborated with is friend and former pupil Bertrand Russell. In the latter, a monumental three-volume opus, the authors cut one of the major tasks of philosophy in half by demonstrating that there is a definite connection between pure mathematics and logic...
...retrospect I see again my Superior calling me and saying: "Go with the mule cart to the village of X, where the missionary is ill." Before daybreak we start, a Chinese priest and a sick pupil from the school of the sisters...
...Francisco State College's President J. Paul Leonard carried the ball a little farther. Said he : "Too much time is spent on rules the pupil forgets, and writing compositions on subjects in which he has no interest nor any information." English teachers were kidding themselves if they thought "that a child cares whether he speaks correctly . . . until he feels the social pressure of his own group." Another fallacy, said Dr. Leonard, was the common belief "that a boy or girl can learn to express himself correctly, clearly and effectively by taking regular courses in English composition in school...
...amused by your write-up on my old school, Shawnigan Lake, and its headmaster [TIME, Nov. 3], although I question whether the article properly belonged under "Education." As a pupil I always had a vague feeling that I was sharing a common experience with Mr. Lonsdale's German shepherds, and am now glad to learn from the Head's own lips that canines and humans are equally amenable to his educational methods. Rousseau and all these other modern pedagogues may think that boy-training is a somewhat subtler process than dog-training, but that's obviously poppycock...
...battles, for control of the schools and the middle class. "We can never win the old people," one Communist frankly told me, "so we must educate the youth our way." They handpick the teachers, and even have a "social commission" to control all exams and make sure that every pupil is "correct" in his social thinking before he can pass, no matter how high his scholastic grades...