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...every pupil be taught to work with his hands: e.g., in a school shop or homemaking laboratory...
...class for conductors from which the Director hopes to turn out five top-rank maestros in five years. Long convinced that a conductor should handle himself as featly as his orchestra, Koussevitzky hired Manhattan Ballet Master Erick Hawkins, partner of famed U. S. Dancer Martha Graham, to teach his pupils podium gestures. Soon Teacher Hawkins had the pupil conductors pirouetting and posturing, trying to become as expressive as dancers. Some of them took it seriously, some were embarrassed. Grumbled one: "Makes a fellow feel selfconscious...
...piano teachers, soft-pedaled by Depression, are inching back toward their 1929 level, 1,500,000 pupils. Their ranks (an estimated 100,000) still include many a teacher of the sort that flourished a generation ago: dowdy females who had studied with a pupil of a pupil of Liszt, made their rounds with brief case under arm, eked out a living playing the organ in church. Women teachers still outnumber men, io-to-1, although men get thrice as many pupils. A good teacher today tends to be younger, better-trained than those of the previous generation. She gives about...
...Star pupil was an eight-year-old with an I. Q. of 201. Irked by the insanities of English spelling, he devised a mathematical formula for getting words pronounced right. The formula baffled his teachers, but worked. Then he wrote a three-volume History of Transportation (for which he did most of his research in FORTUNE), illustrated it himself...
...riddle of the bear is one of the tidbits in Mathematics and the Imagination* by Professor Edward Kasner, a distinguished but whimsical mathematician of Columbia University, and James Newman, a Manhattan lawyer who once was Kasner's pupil. Mathematics is one of the hardest of all sciences to popularize, and the Kasner-Newman book is remarkably successful-perhaps because Dr. Kasner has had a lot of practice talking about mathematics to children. He is the man who gave the world the "googol" and the "googolplex" (TIME, Feb. 28, 1938). The googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros...