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After reading about the rigorous study habits of Soviet students, a coed in the Winter Park (Fla.) Glenridge Junior High School civics class piped up one day to ask: "Do you suppose we could do it?" Social Studies Teacher Hugh Ansley, 24, a traditionalist at heart, thought about it overnight, next day, with his class's backing, decided to give it a try. For the next seven weeks, his civics students were to act as much as possible like little Russians, but without the indoctrination...
Spindler described the "cultural shock" of the "traditionalist" education student as he faced the threat of these new values, and outlined some possible results. The teacher may overcompensate either by taking refuge in his own values, or by accepting the new system unquestioningly...
...Write? Of all emancipation problems, education is the most pressing. Millions of Moslem women are illiterate, and see no need to be otherwise. "Why should my daughter go to school?" demanded one traditionalist Indian mother. "She need not learn to read and write. Her husband will always be by her side. Then to whom should she write a letter?" But such objections are fast yielding to the demand of the young for knowledge, and the determination of the emancipators that they should have it. In Morocco the government has reduced illiteracy an impressive 10% in the two years since independence...
...north central Italy. But last week an unlikely rebel had the people talking angrily about throwing out the Reds once and for all. The issue: progressive education. The rebel: Mother Veronica, the frail, 74-year-old abbess of the Convent of St. Clare, who runs a top-notch traditionalist school for about 90 of San Marino's girls...
...Somalis will always be grateful to Italy," said Aden Abdullah. Last week, with its ten-year trusteeship term half over, Italy turned over all legislative power to an elected native Parliament. Abdullah's party, dedicated to modernization of the Somalis' age-old tribal life, and opposed by traditionalist tribal parties, won 43 out of 63 seats...