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Dr. Wilder's lectures... were unfairly represented by Mr. Thayer and probably misunderstood. The reason is ironic: for, rather than spelling things out in the usual academic way, Wilder, himself a poet, created lectures which were artistic wholes whose suggestive parts were given unity by the cumulative effect of all...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN DEFENSE OF WILDER | 12/12/1956 | See Source »

If 1955 was notable for anything as far as the U.S. public school is concerned, it may be that it will be remembered as the Year of Rudolf Flesch. In his bestselling book Why Johnny Can't Read (TIME, March 14), Flesch baldly accused the U.S. public school of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: THE FIRST R | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

In the '80s, educators began applying the now obvious notion that one good way to teach a child to read was first to snag his interest. They produced readers related to a child's own experiences, and in the 20th century, they started to control the number of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: THE FIRST R | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

Of all the statements recently made in criticism of the public schools,' none has stirred up quite such an argument as the sentence in Rudolf Flesch's bestselling Why Johnny Can't Read: "The teaching of reading-all over the United States, in all the schools, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How Johnny Reads | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

Frenzied as it is, his work needs calm scrutiny. At longer look, the heavy brush strokes link in serpentine rhythms, the streaky, hot & cold colors merge into pulsating wholes and his portraits of people and places gain intensity.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hot & Heavy | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

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