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...South, as well as their own regions, intelligence is in the minority, and that, by a sometimes faulty axiom, the minority is right. Foreseeing a possible run of cancelled subscriptions, the redress of trodden toes, I say such a move is the mark of the subscribers' grade of intelligence. They do not deserve to read TIME...
...above the average student taking the course. If assignments are given which will take a man receiving a high C or low B about six hours a week, there will be no cause for complaint among the undergraduates because those men who have sufficient ability to obtain a higher grade will not think the course too easy to be worth the time taking it, and the men who are under the mark will have to work but not so much that all other activity is excluded. For other activities are important because of the contacts which will remain throughout life...
...teaching in the high schools such a large teaching staff is needed that necessarily a considerable part of it must be of rather low grade with regard to scientific capabilities and scientific understanding. . . . Under these circumstances it can only be good if persons who have shown unusual scientific ability . . . are drawn into high-school teaching...
...with special reference to the State of Tabasco, whose Governor is named Canabal. In Tabasco, according to Father Kenny, children are caused to learn about sex by viewing the matings of dogs, horses, cattle. In one case a bull was labeled "God," a cow "Virgin Mary." Said he: "Primary grade pupils in Tabasco were forced to strip naked, boys and girls, as part of the sex education instruction. . . . Not only this, but both in Tabasco and Mexico City groups of primary pupils were taken to maternity wards by their teachers to watch actual parturition. Some of these hapless children went...
...what they have read during the week because they are bored and realize that the other members of the section should have read the same thing. On the other hand, a poor man will not expose his difficulties because his misunderstanding will probably be the cause of a lower grade. If the value given to discussion in the sections could be reduced there would result a franker discussion of greater value to the students...