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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brameld, there are four major philosophies that dominate educational thinking today. The perennialists, e.g., Robert Hutchins, hold that "the supreme end of education is the possession of everlasting, timeless and spaceless principles of reality, truth, and value." The essentialists emphasize the cultural heritage and traditional subject matter. The progressivists treat the schools as laboratories of experience in which students learn chiefly by pragmatic problem solving. From all these, says Brameld, the reconstructionist has borrowed, but he finds each, in its own way, inadequate. Perennialism leads to dogma and false orthodoxies; essentialism stagnates in the status quo; the progressivists, while strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Create Utopia | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

...twelve sets of tonsils-altogether 178 operations under supervision of a senior doctor. Early, a down-to-earth son of a South Dakota wheat farmer, has no interest in specializing, feels that good medicine depends on knowing the patients and that the best way to know them is to treat them for everything that ails them-up to the limits of his knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How Doctors Are Made | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

Similarly at the University of North Carolina, the administration was forced to accept three Negro undergraduates for admission last September by court order. Expecting the same reaction from students to this as it felt, the administration tried everything to treat the Negroes as a special case. They even tried segregating them in a special section at the football stadium...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: Integration Becomes A Fight Over Principles | 6/14/1956 | See Source »

...amazement and consternation of '31 itself. Some consolation came in the form of an appalling survey by Wadsworth House: "There is a marked increase in the nicotine consumption of this year's freshman class--ten per cent more than last year smoke." Wadsworth House immediately announced a campaign to treat "emotionally disturbed" undergraduates...

Author: By James W.B. Benkard, | Title: The Class of '31: A Brief Look into the Past | 6/12/1956 | See Source »

...hook or crook, trick or treat, carrot or stick, Director Kubrick has extorted a brilliant run for the customer's money from a field of Hollywood also-rans. As the leader of the gang, Actor Hayden gives a believable performance. As Hayden's henchmen, Jay C. Flippen, Ted DeCorsia and Joe Sawyer have the right wrong look; when the camera catches them together, the screen resembles a class photograph from San Quentin. And as the philosophic muscle merchant, Kola Kwarian throws the bull as charmingly as he throws the bulls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 4, 1956 | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

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