Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fine Arts department thus fails to accomplish what should be its highest goal to teach a student the method by which he can judge art for himself, to show him the universal essentials which lie behind all art. The attainment of such a goal entails far less emphasis on facts and chronology--these become a means to an end rather than an end in themselves. It means greater stress on practical art and design; and more than this, a close integration of practical work and history. It means the coordination of art with other branches of knowledge. It means finally...
...real necessity for the movement, its Boston representative claims, is the fact that youth must be taught democratic principles which he believes the educational system does not teach...
...mentioned, the inevitable question about jiu-jitsu was raised. Pat calls jiu-jitsu a type of "aesthetic dancing." A good wrestler can lick a jiu-jitsu expert any time, provided the combatants don't wear jackets while fighting, Pat declared. The art of jiu-jitsu is used to teach detectives, army and navy officers, G-men, and policemen how to disarm a man, and the numerous choke holds are the basis of the art. Choke holds cannot be used unless the opponent is wearing a jacket or coat which can be used as a lever to twist across the throat...
...junior and senior high-school pupils were taught virtually nothing about sex. He decided that something should be done about it. Last summer he saw his chance. From the Board of Superintendents came a new course of science study for junior high schools, proposing to teach pupils about reproduction among birds and flowers but not among animals. Mr. Buck & colleagues promptly sent it back, asking "Why?" Back came the superintendents' reasons, including a junior high school principal's plea that the schools ought not to "shoulder the responsibility of shortening for these little ones, very precious...
...Board of Education, even more impressed by protests from Catholic groups than by their responsibility toward innocence, decided not to teach "mammalian reproduction." But Mr. Buck was not done. He sent his secretary, Eugene R. Canudo (onetime secretary to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia) to make an investigation into youthful sex problems in the nation's biggest city. Mr. Canudo collected literature on sex education. He also went to the courts, the police, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Last week he brought back a report that caused the Board of Education to reconsider its decision. Salient facts...