Word: pupils
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From the start, the Prince and Mrs. Vining got along. She had him as a pupil both in class and in private, and since she knew no Japanese, she had to think up some strange Occidental ways of teaching. She brought him the illustrated Book of Knowledge, acted out words for him, invented a tennis game to be played on paper. Gradually, as his vocabulary increased, he began to explore territory beyond "How are you today?" and "Is your cold better?" He wanted to know about Alexander Graham Bell, Gandhi and the U.N. In time, he read Carl Sandburg...
...Conant, "that education is preparation for the 'good life,' but neither the word 'good' nor the word 'life' is given any content. Or we are told [by John S. Brubacher] that the 'general aim' of education 'is only that of pupil growth.' But what kind of 'growth'? . . . Or we are told [by William Heard Kilpatrick] that education must assume 'increasing responsibility for participation in projecting ideas of social change.' But again we must ask: What kind of change and in what direction...
Today Britain can boast both freedom of religion, and freedom for. If a parent sincerely objects to the instruction-and some Jews and Roman Catholics do-he may keep his child away. Otherwise, a pupil can learn from "reserved" teachers, specially trained in "religious knowledge." The texts the teachers follow are specially written syllabi, which Anglicans and other Protestants agreed in 1944 to accept...
...pupils under five, there are hymns and simple prayers; later there are Scripture lessons and Bible stories. As the pupil grows older, he is led into the Old Testament and the life and teachings of Christ. Gradually, this simple beginning is expanded to include the whole fabric of Christianity...
Irish-born Teacher John Gregg had no alternative but to carry out the father's wishes: the boy happened to be his first and only pupil. Six months later, he was also the first full-fledged graduate-a master of the new Gregg system of shorthand...