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...outdoor ruggedness, however, Timbertop still accents the academic. Tough courses in English, math and science are compulsory, and boys must learn either French, German or Latin. The school charges $405 a term; it is so popular that parents normally have to apply ten years ahead of time to get their children on the Geelong waiting list...
...TEACH HIM THE NEW MATH? Probably not," said the two-column ad in the Washington Post last week. "But trained school teachers can. Can you teach him the Bible? Perhaps. But our trained Sunday School teachers ... can do it better." At the bottom was a list of the 22 United Church of Christ parishes in the Washington area that teach the Bible according to the denomination's new $1,000,000 Sunday School curriculum...
Onward & Upward. In 1933 Shuman married Ida Wilson, an Indiana-born math teacher. By that time, he was climbing the ladder in the Farm Bureau, which he joined in 1929. By 1945 he was the $7,500-a-year president of the statewide Farm Bureau. Its offices were in Chicago, but Shuman decided it was best for his four children to grow up on the farm. After nine years, Shuman moved into the top spot of the national organization in 1954. Ida, whom he credits with having provided much of his drive, died four months before his election...
Manners Over Math. With as many as ten applicants for every pupil who can be admitted, at least a few private schools have been lazily content to teach manners better than math. Some parents whose children have gone to both private and public schools argue that the few good public schools, such as the famed Bronx High School of Science-which are also hard to get into-are as good or better. The real appeal of some private schools, they claim, is parental desire to have their children study ABC's alongside little Rockefellers or Kennedys, and thus...
...Breakthrough. All through his 20s, Faraday was delayed in his scientific development by the ghastly gaps in his education. He was a magnificent "poetical" theorist, but his spelling was a sin and his math a calamity. Unable to make mathematical demonstrations, he was forced to execute physical proofs. Experiment was his instrument, and he employed it with prodigious ingenuity to demolish the world as science...