Word: ryerson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Mongan was acting director of the museum after John P. Coolidge '35, professor of Fine Arts, resigned to devote himself to research and teaching. She is also Martin A. Ryerson Lecturer on Fine Arts...
...costly, risky, and important, bue we are trying to create a school that can demonstrate that teaching and learning require diversity, and that we can create, through our determination, a community out of diverse elements. It's the hardest kind of teaching and learning that there is. Edward Ryerson Director Palfrey Street School
...think the whole responsibility of teaching is on the teacher," Ryerson explained. Courses are arranged without regard to grade levels, he explained, in order to have students teach one another in class. "They wouldn't have to participate in as many ways in a more homogeneous group," he said...
Participation is made easier by the small size of the classes, partially determined by Ryerson's "Palfry's Law." "As the size of the class decreases," says the law, "the need to decrease it is further increased." The closer each teacher gets to his students, the more he realizes how much more attention and time they need. In recognition of this principle the Palfry school will never have more than 60 students and the largest classes will remain under fifteen...
...from the outside, Palfry does not seem threatened at all. The students it transforms, the teachers it liberates and the long unanswered educational need it touches aren't going to allow it to dissolve, unless it analyzes itself into non-existence.Director EDWARD RYERSON "Palfry...