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...teachers used to rigid lesson plans, broad-gauge humanities courses are hard to teach. Parents, too, sometimes wonder about the merit of programs that are not designed to prepare students for conquering the dry, factual state Regents exams. But educators believe that in the long run such courses help students establish values and concepts that will hold good throughout their lives. "The goal is discovery," says J. William Dodd, assistant to the Garden City superintendent. "We want to present issues and problems and let the kids solve them by themselves...
...ordered a major curriculum revision to be ready by 1970. Explaining why, Pravda this month published an unusually candid article by Russian Education Minister Mikhail Prokofiev, who charged that the vast Soviet school system is not only seriously deficient in science and math teaching, but is mired in a rigid "bookism" that makes learning a bore and produces an alarming dropout rate...
...tenors than they did in the thousand-and-one nights at the old house. Last week the Met staged its new production of Lohengrin, and it, too, was a shocker-not for spectacle, but for lack of it. The stage was virtually stripped clean of scenery. Choristers stood in rigid rows like drill teams awaiting inspection; principal singers stirred hardly at all, and when they did, it was with the slow, deliberate movements of dream figures. The audience loved it, loudly bravoed Conductor Karl Böhm and Mezzo-Soprano Christa Ludwig. But the real star of the evening...
...figure that we have the guidelines set about right when the same number of registrants complain they're too loose as board members complain they're too rigid," says Colonel Dee Ingold, special assistant to the director of the Selective Service...
...done about it -practically a political heresy in cynical New York City. Chipper and resilient at 45, even if his fair hair has greyed a bit along with his image, Lindsay is often accused of being a cross between Don Quixote and a spinsterish schoolmarm because of his sometimes rigid righteousness and such of his fancies as "the Athenian idealization of public service." Still, for all his high phrases and sometimes frenetic activity, Lindsay has made some significant strides in his effort to reorganize and govern the nation's least governable city...