Word: schoolmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public schoolmen have apparently agreed that the purpose of going to school is "growth"-as John Dewey put it: "The release of capacity from whatever hems it in." Educationally, the results of that doctrine have been somewhat dismal (see above), but esthetically, they have been just the opposite. In the past three years, the nation has put up nearly 14,000 schools. Consciously or not, the best of them fit into the new philosophy perfectly. Both academically and architecturally, the keynote of the new U.S. school is freedom...
...thus automatically became one of the East's most important secondary schoolmen, for Loomis occupies a secure place among the nation's top dozen prep schools. It began in 1912, with $2,170,000 left by five childless members of a wealthy Windsor family named Loomis, who wanted to found a place for students of all races and religions-"that some good may come to posterity from the harvest, poor though it may be, of our lives." Under the first headmaster, Nathaniel Batchelder, the good came quickly. He boosted enrollments from 67 to 320, built...
Bony Body. In 40 years, Fuess (pronounced Fuss, Few-ess, Feis and Foos-but he prefers Fease) came to know some of the nation's top schoolmen, and he soon realized that the "caricature of the pedagogue with . . . his emaciated and bony body, his oversized horn spectacles, and his hairless, shining dome, in no way corresponds to reality...
When the news broke, Los Angeles newspapers rushed it into headlines: 330 OF L.A. HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS CAN'T TELL TIME. In scores of phone calls, parents lashed out at the schoolmen, and the schoolmen lashed right back ("If we work the kids," said Blair, "we get hell. If we don't work them, we get hell"). At an open meeting of the board of education, Superintendent Alexander Stoddard asked for $2,250,000 to hire 500 more teachers and to give special instruction to backward students...
...81st year, William Heard Kilpatrick is still a formidable figure to U.S. educators-a courtly, silver-haired scholar who next to John Dewey has been the nation's foremost apostle of progressive education. Some schoolmen have revered him and some have damned him, but all have felt his influence. Last week scholars and educators from all over the U.S. assembled in a Manhattan ballroom to celebrate his fourscore years. And last week, in a new biography by ex-Student Samuel Tenenbaum,*readers could learn just what his influence has been in the U.S. school system...