Word: spaceless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general, says Brameld, there are four major philosophies that dominate educational thinking today. The perennialists, e.g., Robert Hutchins, hold that "the supreme end of education is the possession of everlasting, timeless and spaceless principles of reality, truth, and value." The essentialists emphasize the cultural heritage and traditional subject matter. The progressivists treat the schools as laboratories of experience in which students learn chiefly by pragmatic problem solving. From all these, says Brameld, the reconstructionist has borrowed, but he finds each, in its own way, inadequate. Perennialism leads to dogma and false orthodoxies; essentialism stagnates in the status quo; the progressivists...
...gallerygoers got a look at the work of 45-year-old Pierre Tal-Coat (rhymes with kum-quat), who thinks he has found the way. Unlike many of his contemporaries, who were trying to attract attention by loud colors, shocking subjects and explosive forms, he had retreated from noisy, "spaceless" Paris to the cool mountain forests of Provence, and to misty abstractions of rocks, trees and streams...
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