Word: davis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United Artists' Gun Fever, a lissome Indian squaw (Actress Jana Davi) forsakes buckskin for buff skin to scamper winningly up a mossy hillside-but only in happier hunting grounds than...
Will flesh-and-blood teachers eventually be replaced by audio-visual gadgets? At the convention in Cincinnati last week of the National Education Association's Department of Audio-Visual Education some 2,000 people ohed and ahed over electronic marvels designed for the classroom. Proclaimed outgoing DAVI President Walter S. Bell, director of audio-visual education in Atlanta: "The familiar concept of a teacher in a classroom with only some books has completely broken down. The 'old methods simply cannot meet the challenge of the next decade, if education is to serve the humanities...
...deep, resonant voice, lit up with a cheerful "very good" when fed a correct answer, the audile educators were quick to prophesy a revolution in the art of teaching. "It is now possible," declared James D. Finn, professor of education at the University of Southern California and incoming DAVI president, "not only to eliminate the teacher but the school system." Marshall Mc-Luhan, English professor at St. Michael's College, the University of Toronto, in a splendid flight of pedagogical rhetoric, added: "The dialogue [between man and machine] will replace the guided tours of data provided by the book...
...DAVI President Finn offered one caveat: this awesome equipment must not fall into the hands of any one private institution, e.g., the Ford Foundation. Said he: "The American people don't elect representatives to the Ford Foundation...