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...they are extremely emotionally disturbed. He is judging teachers by 19th century standards. If children have some fear of being wrong, this is good. Authority figures abound in our world. Education's purpose is to prepare people to function in society as it is; not in some Utopian fairyland where there are no frustrations, or where no one is ever wrong or punished. The teacher's role is to impart the knowledge he has acquired, to guide the students' thinking, to explore, to experiment, and yes, even to test...
...primordial, emphasizing oneness with physical and psychic nature. The University of Toronto's Northrop Frye, a professor of English and a disciple of Communications Philosopher Marshall McLuhan, sees the hippies as inheritors of the "outlawed and furtive social ideal known as the 'Land of Cockaigne,' the fairyland where all desires can be instantly gratified...
...room; a land-fast 80-ft. rocket took off for the moon in simulated flight. Yet in all the gaiety and glare, in the whomp of bands and the bray of a calliope, only one elegiac sign reminded pleasure seekers that the man was no more who created this fairyland: the flag was at half-staff...
...psychotics are harmless and helpless. The most dangerous type, the paranoid schizophrenic, on the other hand, is a powder keg of lethal emotions. He frequently has deep sexual problems, often involving his mother. He not only lives in an unreal world that may be dominated by either macabre or fairyland fantasy, but is haunted by fears and delusions of persecution. In his befuddled mind, an accidental bump on a crowded sidewalk or a passing criticism from his employer or family can be transformed into an illusion that the world is plotting against him. When he chooses to retaliate...
PORT AUTHORITY HELIPORT offers a $6.50, four-minute whirlybird's-eye squint. The flight is best taken at night when the fair becomes a fairyland of colored lights and fireworks...