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Almost equally important is the outdated educational system. Established by the British to prepare lower class civil servants for the colonial government, the present system of university education gives students theory when they need practical training, allows almost no free student-faculty relationships, and emphasizes rote memory instead of the individual thinking needed in a new democracy. The students are young, too, entering college at about age 15. Emerging from the universities with one or more degrees, most students face almost certain unemployment, for "white collar" jobs are scarce and few are willing to accept manual work...
...nature of much ROTC study, the approach which had seemed most feasible was to concentrate on the fundamentals of army training and cut the credit to one-half. Under Dupuy's plan, however, the drudge work of the ROTC is banished entirely from the College. Instead the chores and rote memory work are limited to an elongated summer camp, twelve weeks instead of the current...
...Glass is genuine, and Playwright Morgan's characters say some pertinent things. But there is no real sense of moral passion, nor effect of intellectual light. There is rather an unconscionable amount of talk that sounds much more like writing, and of love-making that seems written by rote. Despite a lively and accomplished performance by Cedric Hardwicke as the Prime Minister and about 15 minutes of good, vulgar, second-act suspense, The Burning Glass is a high-toned bore...
...Grade-school children in Chicago were playing a new numbers game: I Win, a close cousin to rummy, which is supposed to teach them arithmetic. Invented by Gertrude Gebbie, an accountant who wanted to help "children who don't have the patience to learn by rote," / Win has the approval of the Chicago board of education, sells retail at 75? a deck. Half a million decks are already...
...this period, Schmitt probed among the junior varsity linemen, seeking players who had what he looks for in a lineman: some football instinct, much patience and a lot of heart. That search netted two players, Joe Shaw and Cy Thompson. Many techniques of line play must be learned by rote, and Thompson and Shaw were willing to devote the time and the effort, Schmitt says. They contributed heavily to the varsity's much-improved 1951 record of three wins, five losses and one tie. "When Joe and Cy were done they both were good football players," says Schmitt. That simple...