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Diplomas with pictures of heroes are popular in public schools. One of the certificates most popular in elementary schools from coast to coast has a picture of Charles Lindbergh and his Spirit of St. Louis. Youngsters who complete their grade-school education in Oklahoma are rewarded with diplomas picturing hat-waving Will Rogers. Most famous Will Rogers line: "All I know is what I read in the papers...
...gravely disturbs countries like Italy, where Mussolini has for years struggled to develop an industry which requires few raw materials besides talent and imagination. All Mussolini's efforts have been a flop. Italy has 2,700 theatres, which show 350 films a year. Through 1938, about 200 high-grade films were imported from the U. S. and about 50 low-grade films were made at home...
...Each year the S. P. C. C. has to care for many girls under 16 who are victims of rape, incest, compulsory prostitution. One investigator studied 1,400 rapings of children, found the biggest group were girls in the sixth grade...
From Cursing our Conant Plan Grade...
This idea is not new. There are hundreds of Fallen Oak Teachers' Colleges which sell Child Psychology and Fourth Grade Methods in wholesale quantities. What is new is Dean Holmes' emphasis on the necessity of correlating the science of education with knowledge of the liberal arts subject itself. The two must be integrated so that each individual teacher can apply his technical knowledge differently...