Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chairman Lyle Phillips could well use some competent "woolly-brained" physicists to analyze the methods used by his physics department. Looking at the pathetic pupil achievement in these courses at the University of Buffalo causes me to ask: When will university physics and math departments take a good long look at how to teach science...
...reason for putting a satilight up"). Without them, one student conceded, "we would not have any of the modern conveniences that we have today." But the scientist, said another, "does not need to be a genius. Albert Einstein had a very low IQ." Snorted still another pupil: "I don't think he has to be so brilliant he doesn't have any common sense...
...pupil, scientists may come in any size or shape, but "they are interesting only in science, talk about science all the time, have a mild temper and patience beyond endurance." The poor wretch of the laboratory "doesn't hardly ever have time to fix his self up, he is so busy experimenting. Usually single-if married not many kids, if any. But a real brain. Doesn't hardly ever go to bed." "I believe," said one student, "the typical scientist would stay in his little laboratory most of the time except to eat and go to conventions...
...blew off a fortnight ago when Preston Young, 16, a Negro pupil at Central Senior High, punched Richard Powers, 28, a gym teacher. Outraged Superintendent Hazlett last week prodded the board of education into expelling Young for the rest of the year, asked for the right to expel any disorderly pupil for up to a full semester. Hazlett called for the names of juvenile extortionists and weapon carriers, planned to make their parents "answer to the central office why their child should stay in school...
Meanwhile, Kansas City cops continued to patrol the schoolyards, cracked down on non-pupil troublemakers. "Some day someone will bump the wrong person," said one sergeant, "and when it happens, I'm afraid we'll have a lot worse situation here than they had at Little Rock...