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Because his idea of education is a rather special one, Ken Reiner was disgusted with his daughter's lack of progress in public school. Because he is a millionaire, he found a rather special solution to his problem. He built a school of his own, and now that it is in operation. Reiner and his children are content. It is a rather special school...
...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...
Represented among the collectors are classmates David Rockefeller, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., George Franklin, Sydney Freedberg, Paul Geir, James Laughlin, Gordon Palmer, Albert Reiner, and Ernest Teves...
...credo: "Improve the standards; clean out the muck; cut out the cant!" Beecham was sometimes referred to as the greatest amateur in musical history -partially because he was financially independent, partially because he approached his music with a relaxed urbanity foreign to such great, tyrannical contemporaries as Toscanini or Reiner. Despite the ferocity of his public utterances, he handled his orchestras with velvet irony. "We can not expect you to follow us all the time," he would say to an offending player, "but if you would have the kindness to keep in touch with us occasionally...