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...dialogue with readers. Says Van Nostrand: "It is easier to organize your information for someone else than for yourself." In a typical course, 15 to 30 students meet with an instructor twice a week for 90-minute sessions. The core of the program is a 331-page workbook outlining a series of laborious drills that break the writing process into simple steps...
...This other person is more courteous than you." Such destructive criticism helps couples to learn that hostility separates people. On the other hand, anger is rewarded in Malone's course because it can actually draw people closer. Husband and wife are counseled, each in his private workbook, to buy a gift in secret and present it after the other "first allows himself to be openly angry with you instead of hostile." For reasons that are not explained, the gift is to be given at 3 a.m. on the morning after anger is displayed-a time seemingly calculated to produce...
...keep the kids alert while listening, a workbook goes with each taped lecture, requiring responses to what the lecturer is saying. A student follows a weekly schedule of tapes, but can roughly pick his own times between 7 a.m. and 10:45 p.m. for listening, can review a lecture as needed...
...beautiful poem. Every one of those kids was learning to think for himself. I thought that that was my job." Even Bein' God. Had he been willing to stick closer to grammar and spelling, all might have gone well for Richer. But he detested the regulation texts ("All workbook stuff-read the chapter, answer the questions, turn them in, then read the next chapter"), and if his pupils expressed curiosity about a topic, he was apt to get carried away. He assigned some strange themes (sample topic, taken from Green Pastures: "Even bein...
Today, after 25 years, W.P.'s Webster Publishing Co. of St. Louis is at the top of the U.S. speller business and his idea has spread. Other publishers have long since begun turning out workbooks like Johnson's. Last week, at W.P.'s silver anniversary banquet, President Robie D. Marriner of the American Textbook Publishers Institute called the Johnson workbook "as significant as any contribution of teacher training itself during the last 25 years." To W.P., it was significant for another reason: it just went to show, he told banqueters, that a man can start with...