Word: spartanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...superintendent of public instruction. The winner was a formidable, get-back-to-fundamentals conservative: zesty Max Rafferty, 46, onetime superintendent of schools in a Los Angeles suburb, whose recent book, Suffer, Little Children, argues in rococo prose that progressive education has led to "slobbism," and who calls for a spartan return to ''sweat, service and sacrifice...
...parent and teacher at the same time. To handle the parental role, they stress sports, discipline, manners, religion and democracy. To teach well, they accent intimate learning in classes that average nine students compared with the public school average of 28. Avoiding distractions, they generally offer spartan living on spacious, tradition-encrusted campuses, most of them in the Northeast. Despite these uniform methods, the schools that operate 24 hours a day come in all shapes and sizes...
...shows scientific phenomena with a Sterno can and a toy physics kit. Fuller prepares lunch himself-usually canned soup, fruit, bread, butter and milk. The kids say grace in Russian, eat at their desks, and return their plates (scraped) to Fuller in the kitchen. If they stick to this Spartan routine through high school, Fuller is sure, colleges will shower them with "a multitude of scholarships." Exam for Parents. On Fuller's office walls are two pictures, both of Senator Barry Goldwater, who "typifies what this school stands for: individuality and self-responsibility." On Fuller's desk...
...that James is a professional, he lives by spartan rule. He is first to rise in his family, plays quietly with his toy cars until the others are awake. He practices deep into the morning, then plays with his three-year-old brother until afternoon, when he invariably demands another practice session. James's love for the drums has left him altogether drummy. When asked his name, he soberly replies: "I'm Gene Krooper...
...back home at the palace, awaits his official report card from his first term at his father's old school in Scotland, spartan Gordonstoun, where cold showers and sprints before breakfast are the rule. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 13, "was near the top in a class of 28," said Headmaster F.R.G. Chew. "Good average is the phrase-and he has settled in jolly well." The headmaster cleared up another point: the other kids call him Charles...