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...Great Books," and most people think of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, not Jack and the Beanstalk. But Jack has won a place, along with Winnie-the-Pooh, The Jungle Books and excerpts from James Thurber, in a respected and fast-growing reading program called Junior Great Books. Created for elementary and secondary schoolchildren by the Chicago-based Great Books Foundation, the reading-discussion program does not aim to "teach" the classics. It tries, instead, to teach young people to enjoy good books and to understand better whatever they read. Explains Edwin P. Moldof, the foundation's vice president...
J.G.B.'s success is based on an intelligently demanding choice of texts, a discussion method called "shared inquiry," and on precise, literate questions calculated to unlock the pleasures and mysteries in each story's heart. For both students and discussion leaders there are some unusual rules. Program leaders ask questions about the readings but, unlike traditional teachers, are not permitted to give answers. Their questions, many of them suggested by accompanying instrucion booklets, are supposed to have more than one answer. Sample suggestion for Kipling's Jungle Books: "Why do the wolves feel they need a leader...
...theory, the application of shared inquiry techniques to Jack sounds a bit like breaking a butterfly on a wheel. But in practice teachers find the method leads to sharp debate, not hot air. Says Moldof, who, along with Great Books Foundation President Richard P. Dennis, first dreamed up the program: "Kids don't have to worry about searching for the answer the teacher already knows. They just have to back up what they...
...secular influence, the Presbyterian-affiliated school prides itself on never having taken a nickel from Washington, even in a time when private colleges get over a third of their operating budgets directly or indirectly from federal sources. Frugal Grove City provides its 2,200 students with a strong academic program, particularly notable in engineering and accounting, plus room and board, all for just $3,250 a year...
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