Word: reiner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cannot help shuddering to think what our country would be after 20 years of an educational system such as the one advocated by Mr. Reiner...
...back to this nonsense, there is no doubt in my mind that Russian children will be exploring the moon while Mr. Reiner's children continue to explore Mount Baldy...
...most educators, classroom permissiveness died of overindulgence ten years ago, and the return to discipline is well advanced. But to Ken Reiner, permissiveness makes happy children happier and good teachers better, and at his Midtown School in Hollywood's Silver Lake district, he has taken it to new heights. The children may write on the walls, throw sand and food at each other, shun their classes and practice card tricks and wander about the fanciful school grounds all day, smiling at the wonder of it all. The teachers, wary of inhibiting the children, let them do whatever they want...
...headmistress is Reiner's freethinking wife Alice. "We try hard not to impose phony adult standards.'' she says. "They learn by doing. If they want to take off all their clothes, that's perfectly all right with us. The parents aren't quite ready for that yet, but they did agree that the girls could strip down to bikinis." Says a parent: "They learn without realizing they're learning. It makes us feel like such good parents...
...Couldn't Go Back." Reiner, a vastly successful manufacturer of women's hair clips (TIME, Aug. 10, 1959), was himself educated at New York's progressive Ethical Culture School and at Purdue. To keep his school running, he contributes about $100,000 a year toward the difference between tuition and costs. The six-acre filled ravine where the school stands and the dazzling buildings cost him a million dollars, and Midtown's impressive array of planned improvements may cost a half-million more...