Word: manned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first half of "Man: A Course of Study" teaches children what is known about the life cycles and behavior patterns of particular animal species (salmon, herring gulls, baboons). The animal facts are designed to stimulate freewheeling discussions about human behavior, mainly as the kids see it. "We are trying to rely as much on their insights as possible," says Course Director Dow. "We would argue that it's more fruitful to let the analogies grow out of the experience of the kids than to try to structure the analogies for them...
...Bruner's goals is to teach children "the general idea of what's meant by adaptability: how a culture develops as a way of adapting to the environment." Bruner's big goal, though, is to get the youngsters to think about the nature of man and try to answer three basic questions: "What is human about human beings? How did they get that way? How can they be made more so?" The children's response has been extremely enthusiastic. In a generally glowing evaluation of the course, the Harvard School of Education praised the "classroom climate...
...Though it has not been formally adopted by any school system, "Man: A Course of Study" is now being taught in 1,000 public-and private-school classrooms throughout the U.S. Wholesale acceptance seems remote: the course materials are expensive (roughly $4 per pupil v. $1 for an ordinary course), and schools must agree to submit teachers to a 20-session workshop on how to present the materials. Even so, the initial results are so good that Education Development Center is planning a second behavior course for children, to be called "Exploring Human Nature...
...strategy for dealing with disputes is well defined: "One must never resort to force, psychic or otherwise." Not that she recoils from arguing with her critics. But even though she may consider a certain problem to be a moral issue, she says, "I'll never tell a man he's immoral, because I don't know his conscience...
...man who must make the wager pay off is Najeeb Elias Halaby, 54, Pan Am's new president and chief executive. Halaby has not yet had time to demonstrate that he can lead a losing airline back to solid profits, but he has sound credentials for that difficult job. Before he landed at Pan Am, he was in turn an outstanding pilot, a practicing lawyer, a corporate executive and an imaginative, activist chief of the Federal Aviation Administration. He also showed himself to be accomplished in personal public relations, seldom failing to remind audiences that he was President Kennedy...