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...Best Teacher of 1946" is greying Mrs. Edith Creed Binker, 42, wife of an insurance man. Says she: "I'm just an ordinary teacher who got in a rut 22 years ago and has been polishing the groove ever since...
...close enough to speak without raising his voice, the proctor tipped his .mortarboard in greeting and put the traditional progging question: "Sir, are you a member of the University?" One of the G.I.s nudged his companion and demanded loudly, beerily, and in approximately these words: "Say, Eddie, who the rut is this rutting...
Founded in 1887, the Horace Mann School became one of the nation's leading laboratories of schoolteaching. Its first, timidly daring explorations did much to lift U.S. schools out of a three-Rs rut. Its experiments in such fields as manual training, natural science, and language-teaching by conversation were copied throughout the nation. But with success, Horace Mann settled down as more of a proving ground for tried methods than a laboratory for new ones...
...which, says Lysenko, is nonsense. Heredity, he believes, changes spontaneously-and can be changed artificially. His key chapter has the thundering Marxian title "The Liquidation of the Conservatism of the Nature of Organisms." He explains that a plant variety often gets into a rut. Thus, it tries to produce descendants exactly like itself. But buried in its germ plasm are characteristics which have been suppressed because they did not benefit the plant in its accustomed environment. All that is needed to bring these buried characteristics to light is to "liquidate the plant's conservatism...
...plant can be jarred out of its bourgeois rut: 1) by a special sort of grafting, 2) by modifying the external environment at the proper stage of the plant's development, or 3) by crossing sharply differing varieties. If done properly, the plant's heredity is "disestablished." It becomes plastic, enterprising, willing to try new methods of getting along in the world. Then, if moved to a new environment, it can change itself to fit the new conditions...