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...Threats. The approach to education is similarly less harsh. While classroom attendance is normally compulsory, teachers do not browbeat the boys into studying. "As soon as you crack down on them, they just freeze," explains a teacher at the Illinois State Training School for Boys in St. Charles. The kids have to be stimulated to learn, rather than threatened. "Threats are useless," contends Sam Jones, a teacher at the Fred C. Nelles School for Boys in Whittier, Calif. "These kids have been threatened by masters...
...York's Warwick Training School, the boys get better teaching than they are likely to have had in public schools. The accent is on remedial reading-almost half are functional illiterates-and there is one teacher for every ten slow readers. Grouped by ability, the boys never have to parade their ignorance before their peers -a humiliation that plagued them in home schools...
P.D.Q. Bach (1807-1742) is the happy creation of Schickele, a composer and former teacher. The concert was a sometimes broad but always knowing lampoon of baroque music, carried off with just enough expertise to border on the believable. Some of the musical jokes, excellently played by a 20-piece orchestra of professional musicians, only a musician would understand. Others, such as the Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons, any listener could enjoy. Treading on every musical cliché, fugues began and went nowhere, arias seesawed off and on key, and when a climax was needed, Schickele chimed in with...
...jobs of the teacher is to help the students not be afraid to be ridiculous. It seems to me that you can't get educated if you are afraid to be ridiculous...
What Did He Say? Though Keynes's gospel has only recently come to full flower, a school of fervid apostles has been preaching it in the U.S. for more than a generation. Harvard's Alvin Hansen, the first great Keynesian teacher, taught it to hundreds of economists, many of them now in high positions. Hansen's brightest student was Paul Samuelson, who later wrote a Keynesian-angled college textbook on economics that has gone to 2,000,000 copies and influenced the thinking of count less teachers and students...