Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vidya mandirs will be "work schools" instead of "book schools." The Mahatma proposes to teach India's children how to use their minds by teaching them how to use their hands. Chief subjects in the curriculum will be spinning, weaving, agriculture, sugar-making; chief instrument of education, the takli, a small spindle on which the student can spin yarn as he walks, talks, prays. As they learn these trades, India's school children will also learn history, geography, the three Rs. English will be taboo, for British de-Indianizing of the Indians, says Gandhi, is the nation...
...School will open for its first regular session this fall, following over a year of exploratory sessions in which the faculty and invited government officials collaborated in shaping a new type of curriculum for study and research on basic governmental problems. Until the start of the second term this years, the School will continue to be housed in Hunt Hall in the Yard...
Likewise, in considering courses, be open-minded. At Harvard you will find as little academic restriction as anywhere in the world of colleges Remember that as Freshmen you have your main chance to explore the curriculum and find what in it appeals most. Let your first year be one great survey course, in which you taste but not swallow. Later will come the specialization that enables you, in the Eliot tradition, to do one thing well. And by all means realize that academic life does not require twelve hours each day or that nothing but study is proper. Look around...
...biggest anomaly on the curriculum was a demonstration to disprove the popular notion that driving would be made safer if governors were put on cars to limit their top speed. The students saw three demonstration cars almost pile up when a car with a governor, overtaking another, found itself with inadequate emergency power to pass quickly as another car came in the opposite direction...
...bunk," the Greenfield schools teach history. But they stress such subjects as typewriting, manual training, telegraphy, mathematics, spelling, agriculture. Machine shop work begins in the eighth grade. Prime aim of the Ford educational plan is to produce a nation of handy men, rather than poets or philosophers. His curriculum excludes all but "useful" subjects. Thus, his schools teach no foreign language, no art but the utilitarian, no literature for its own sake. Fond of moral precepts such as abound in the McGuffey Readers, Henry Ford values as literature Longfellow's The Village Blacksmith, because of its message. He likes...