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...especially on the sign language for the deaf. It is a beautiful and fascinating language. We deaf people are proud of our language and learning. We learned faster under deaf teachers than others. A hearing person who is adept in sign language and has the welfare of the deaf schoolchildren in their hearts makes a good teacher; I will not argue that point with you, but the deaf teacher makes a better teacher as they understand the deaf students' problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1955 | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

About 1% of U.S. schoolchildren have either superior intelligence or a specific talent beyond their years. Educators have long grappled with the problems of average and retarded students, but gifted children have been largely forced to pass through school at the pace of their less talented classmates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bright Youngsters | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...Children's Hour. In Chidlows, Australia, Police Constable Don Laurance, lecturing schoolchildren on the dangers of handling explosives left from World War II, was so persuasive that they revealed their private cache of two 25-lb. shells, several grenades, detonators, and 50 rounds of small-arms ammunition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 15, 1955 | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...formaldehyde as the killing agent: ironically, it may actually favor the clumping of virus particles that makes a vaccine unsafe. And they had little patience with the Mahoney strain (which has caused most of the polio in the Cutter-vaccinated cases).* Denmark, they noted, has inoculated its 400,000 schoolchildren with a Salk-type vaccine, but with the Brunhilde strain substituted for Mahoney, and with no mishap. And since the U.S. authorities were not satisfied with present testing methods, it was clear that major changes in the Salk vaccine were imminent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Premature & Crippled | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...name of the Patriarch of Jerusalem. It is easy for Strongman Peron to be friendly to other churches: in 93% Catholic Argentina, only one church poses any threat to his total control of the nation, or any obstacle to his aim of Peronizing the minds of Argentine schoolchildren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Question of Conscience | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

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