Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surrounded a school. Headmaster Louis Rabbo complained that he was "shoved rudely" by the soldiers when he tried to protest. The troops ordered the pupils, all in their early teens, to close their windows, then hurled beer-can-size canisters of U.S.-made CS antiriot gas into the packed classrooms. One student, Mohammed Azzeh, 13, was studying Arab literature in a second-floor classroom when a soldier appeared, ordered the windows shut and added, "Don't be afraid." Two CS canisters then went off. The students in second-floor classes were so frightened that they leaped...
What, if anything, can the College provide to help prepare students for these experiences? Certainly a course on another culture will help; so will the foreign language requirement. But the potentialities of the classroom are limited. Books and lectures cannot readily evoke a vivid realization of the human consequences of underdeveloped economics or convey the subtle differences in perspective and attitude that mark another culture. In order to prepare for life in an interdependent world, there is no substitute for living in a foreign land, either to study or, better yet, to work...
When Fidel Castro's forces triumphed in Cuba in 1959, nearly one-quarter of the population could neither read nor write. Compulsory primary education and an ambitious classroom construction program have reduced illiteracy to 4%. Cuban infant mortality is 29 per 1,000 and average life expectancy is 70 years. By contrast, the nearby Dominican Republic has a 32% illiteracy rate, infant mortality of 98 per 1,000 and an average life expectancy of only 58 years...
Many of the new directions seek to spur economic growth by encouraging higher productivity and renewed respect for China's educators and scientists. Teachers are now being told to spend nearly all their time in classroom work, rather than doing the manual labor so beloved by China's radicals. University entrance examinations, once scorned as "revisionist," have been reinstated. Some prominent victims of past ideological attacks have been restored to grace. Several hundred members of Shanghai's Academy of Sciences, who were once accused of being secret agents of Taiwan's Kuomintang, have been exonerated...
...Gavino Ledda and his singular determination to acquire ever-deepening levels of knowledge and understanding, despite some very formidable obstacles. The opening scene loses no time in explaining why the cards will be stacked against Gavino for the better part of his life. Storming into Gavino's grammar school classroom, shepherd's staff in hand, Efisio demands custody of his son. He tells Gavino's awestruck teacher that the boy is more urgently needed in the fields with the family flock than behind a desk with a book, summing up his view of education by declaring, "There's no such...