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Conversions In the Papuan jungles of New Guinea, Geoffrey Baskett from the Kwata Mission reported that he had converted 300 head hunters to the Oxford Movement...
...seventh-graders, the class decided to make its quarters in its new building "like a real home." It ordered furniture, designed andirons and screens, made lists of books for the library, held a housewarming, finally printed, laboriously, by hand, a book, Our Home. The authors of Were We Guinea Pigs? report that all students in University School are required to study science, social science, English, mathematics and physical education. Even Latin is offered. But their school differs from traditional ones because the students plan their own studies...
...Guinea Pigs's authors devote a whole chapter to Putting Our Minds In Order. For University School is distinguished from other progressive schools chiefly by a unique mathematics course, most popular course in the school and required for all juniors and seniors. Called The Nature of Proof, this course is intended to promote critical thinking, differs from the usual study of logic by being entirely practical. It is taught by shock-haired, Canadian-born Dr. Harold Pascoe Fawcett. Dr. Fawcett starts with an ex planation of the principles of Euclidean geometry, goes on to show his students that every...
...authors of Were We Guinea Pigs? though critical, are not cynical about their school. They complain that a few of their courses were disappointing, admit that a student without initiative may "slide along," object that at times some of their friendly teachers "have tended to become a little too personal...
...authors' conclusion: "Maybe we were guinea pigs, but we. our parents and our teachers are still glad we took the chance...