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...daughter, badly shocked, survives as a sort of spiritual absentee, her feelings annulled, her values voided. She hardly even seems to know her mother. She cannot even cry. She can only in stunned rote repeat her "disgrace" with the first man she happens to meet. The mother pleads, rages, weeps, despairs. The girl is, as the alienists say, "out of contact." Then comes word that the young intellectual they both loved is dead, killed by the Germans. Sobbing, the two women fall into each other's arms, revived by death, healed with suffering...
What could be more rote drill than Skinner's "one-step-at-a-time teaching, immediately 'reinforcing' each correct response with a grain of corn." What could be more inflexible than this or the sample of a programed high school physics lesson as shown...
...Governor criticized more than Meyer's attitude on the draft; he went on to condemn what he called "Meyer's rote to abolish the Defense Department," and his votes against the Mutual Security Program which, he emphasized, "gives us to impoverished places." Here, gain Stafford misrepresents Meyer's record...
Indians & Doorbells. Hansen has no quarrel with progressive education's contention that problem solving is more interesting than rote learning. But he thinks progressives underestimate the pride that children take in acquiring intellectual skills. Instead of directly teaching the skills necessary to solve problems, progressive schools resort to a kind of subliminal advertising. They start out with "units of experience" built around such hardy fascinators as "the Red Man." After interviewing an imported chief in full headdress, children write Indian themes-supposedly absorbing grammar and spelling along the trail...
...educators dispute the quality of Soviet training in such fields. American education is superior, they argue, because it is free of the rote learning, Marxian indoctrination and pressure for applied research that characterizes Soviet schooling. Yet the U.S. is short of engineers, physicians and teachers-and Russia is not. Concludes DeWitt, noting that Russia now spends as much on education as the U.S., though it is less than half as wealthy: "We will have to do much more for the betterment of our own education before it is too late...