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...secret that our technical knowledge has surpassed our humane knowledge. Burgess Hill has taken a giant step toward closing the gap. Its methods are too radical for most of us. But it's the underlying philosophy that is important, i.e., by leaving a child free to be his natural self, he will regulate himself and thence become a positive human being...
What makes the question of local control a current subject of U.S. debate is a growing gap between the have and have-not schools, widened by the financial dis parity between school systems and com pounded by a national shortage of skilled manpower. To some critics, the situation cries out for a "national curriculum" to equalize schools. Loud among them is Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who calls local control "the greatest obstacle to school reform." Says Rickover in a tendentiously titled new book, Swiss Schools and Ours: Why Theirs Are Better (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.95): "I know of no country...
...peasants when he wanders into their town telling of his heroic murder of his father. The sudden appearance of Old Mahon shows Christy up as a mere poet, a liar. And when he actually does perform the crime before their eyes, he becomes a criminal. "There's a great gap," says Pegeen Mike, the girl with whom he has fallen in love, "between a gallous story and a dirty deed." Her rejection of Christy jolts him to an awakening: the idle dreamer becomes a poet of reality, and in the process, a man. When Old Mahon survives his second murder...
...emerged with a plan for basic democracies: 80,000 village elders elected to panchayats (councils) that were to levy local taxes, maintain roads, run police forces. While the panchayats nurtured democracy at the grass roots, Ayub Khan continued to practice autocracy at the top. Last week he reduced the gap; he signed a new, 134-page constitution, promised the nation's first general elections...
Clearly, the gap between the two sides was narrower than the one that led to 1959's bitter, 116-day strike. Then why the recess after only three weeks' bargaining? Sighed one top Administration economist: "Both sides wanted to assert their independence and get out from under Government pressure." Both steel labor and management apparently felt that the Administration's energetic tactics had saddled them, in the public eye, with the obligation to hammer out a noninflationary deal or take the consequences...