Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...devaluation was one more indication that Communist Marshal Tito, while still revering Das Kapital as a Bible, is not using it as his only economics textbook. The Tito regime has recently loosened the government's rigid control over the Yugoslav economy, putting many state-run enterprises on a profit & loss basis...
...ideal of Soviet law is no law at all: this must wait, however, for the evolution of a communist utopia. For the present, Russian jurists must content themselves with a practical, concrete body of law. The definition of the term "law" in the 1949 Russian textbook on "Theory of the State and Law," in remarkably similar to Stuchka's idea of bourgeois law, which tends to the benefit of the ruling class...
...What we would like to see is an end to the warfare over educational methods. All the methods are useful. The textbook should be supplemented with the field trip; the ukase from the platform should be tested by the experiment in the laboratory . . . But of what import are the various methods of learning if learning itself has no substance, no corpus of laws, no end? The business of American educators is to seek to establish the nature of man and the universe, and to make a valiant try at formulating the laws that govern each . . . Certainty may elude...
Action to Action. The important thing about learning, Experimentalist Kilpatrick insisted, was not the subject but the child. He saw no point in mere textbook education which, fed to passive students, "reduced man to mind, and mind largely to memory." A child learns by living, said he; and therefore education must be based on action, every action leading to better action: "Thinking, unless it works, isn't worth anything...
...instructor in the course is C.G.B. Garrett. British-born Garrett has been keeping what may best be described as a stiff upper lip concerning the big textbook lack in his course. "We're going ahead just as if we had the text," he says; "there's nothing else...