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Watching Adler teach is a bit like watching Itzhak Perlman fiddle or Walter Payton run. No passive observer of the learning process, Adler is a full participant. He punches the air with his fists, bounces up and down in his chair, clasps his hands prayerfully to help students approach comprehension. When a difficult point is finally understood, he laughs with delight. During the discussion of goodness, when a student brings up Aristotle's concept of "right desire," Adler roars with pleasure. "What is really good for you is what you really need!" he shouts, waving his arms. Then...
Pissarro was one of the avant-garde's oak-tree uncles: a man of enormous solidity and forthrightness, blunt in speech, loyal to his friends and open to younger artists. He loved to organize, teach, and argue and work with other painters, and the list of artists who owed him some part of their self-knowledge was long...
...teach the students that living by the Bible is the road to real peace." Sartorial rules aside, Irvington's devout classrooms and moral aims are typical of thousands of fundamentalist Christian schools that have been popping up all over America. Some proponents claim that such schools, usually sponsored by local churches, are being born at the rate of three a day. They estimate too that the number of pupils enrolled has risen since 1971 from about 140,000 to 450,000-or roughly 1% of the current school-age population. The figures may exaggerate the growth; a number...
...grades one through eight, the main reading and literature textbooks are McGufley readers dating from the 19th century, which progress from primers designed to teach reading by the use of phonics to literary anthologies of great poetry and prose-often heroic or uplifting excerpts. Instead of sentences like "See Spot run," special first-grade texts use Christian lessons to teach reading: "Adam was the first father. Eve was the first mother." Two plus two will always equal four, says a math lesson, just as "Thou shalt not kill" will always mean thou shalt not kill. In high school economics, students...
...Public schools can teach some as pects of moral education - such as deal ing with drugs, theft, personal responsi bility, better manners, decency," says Scott Thomson, executive director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. "What the Christian school movement is saying is that public schools have two to three years to do a better job. If public schoolteachers are moral, work hard, and don't hide behind one or an other legal curtain in dealing with val ues, then most of the Christian parents will be happy and they'll go back to teaching Christianity elsewhere...