Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sargent v. Twelve-Year-Olds. Harvard's articulate Dean of Architecture Joseph Hudnut would like to cut down on rote textbook learning, not only for the "nonverbal" third, but for all high-school students. Says he in the January Magazine...
Saint Augustine, "the Saint of the Intellect," is enthroned among the saints as "the first great teacher of rational thought." His Doctrina Christiana, "the earliest pedagogical textbook of the Western world," supplied "the foundation on which the first European universities were built." From his teachings arise the famed Protestant tenets of "the pre-eminence of faith over good works, of grace over reason...
...Southern Korea a simple fact is news: the grade schools have reopened. The run-down buildings were emptied several months ago when the Japs evacuated school children; the intellectual shutdown occurred a generation ago. The Army is solving the textbook problem the direct way, by going into the printing business. Freedom of worship is back, too. Church bells ring on Sunday morning, and the other day the Most Reverend Paul Ro, Archbishop of Seoul, celebrated a solemn high mass of thanksgiving for liberation...
...Young America is the first filmmaker with the audacity to promise movie courses for every class from kindergarten through high school. It will offer a three-part package: a one-reel short for $25, summing up the course, a "strip film" of pictures and diagrams tied to a popular textbook in the field, and a what-to-do-about-it manual for the teacher. Young America hopes to put out 100 basic films and eight documentaries...
...Pilgrim's chief spokesman) and Governor William Bradford, a Denver-born author and scholar named George Findlay Willison has pieced together a brisk history of the Plymouth colony which should go far toward answering questions like this one. His Saints and Strangers is a far cry from the textbook story. His Pilgrim Fathers are as inept a crew of pious pioneers as ever tackled a howling wilderness...