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STUNG by criticism, progressive educationists defended their belief in teaching according to "life purposes," and blasted back at their critics. Two questioned the teaching of foreign languages, another insisted that "adjustment" is more important than "rote learning." A letter from the National Association of Secondary-School Principals called its 16,500 members to arms and, among other things, asked them to consider discontinuing school subscriptions to TIME and LIFE. See EDUCATION, Back Talk and The Best Defense...
...master's degree as late as 1948, "we have had to learn a new vocabulary. In the traditional mathematics we would say 'cancel out numbers.' Now you say 'divide.' Traditional algebra was taught as real numbers, and it was taught by rote. In the set theory, you can prove it logically...
...because of an earlier mauling from the Browns, the Lions had not figured on such an easy time. But it was even easier than easy. The Lions could not afford to lose another quarterback, so their blockers reared up and bounced the Browns out of range of Tobin Rote with ferocious energy. And Tobin Rote, Layne's alternate, lofted perfect passes that had Detroit ahead, 17-0, by the end of the first quarter...
...Browns tried to pass their way back into the game, the alert Lion defense spoiled everything with timely interceptions. When the Browns ran-even when their great Rookie Jim Brown carried-jarring Detroit tackles forced costly fumbles. And when red-dogging Brown linebackers broke through on Lion Quarterback Rote, a fine fullback named John Henry Johnson was almost always there to take a hand-off and explode up the middle on spectacular draw plays. By the end of the half, the Lions were leading...
...control his twitching." The San Francisco Chronicle's Terrence O'Flaherty found him "nervous as an unprepared high-school valedictorian." And Variety spelled it out: "He forgot entire sentences and cues. He's far too deadpan. He has a tendency to speak stiffly, as if by rote...