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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Levisons were not sending seven-year-old Carolyn to school. Instead, Mrs. Levison was teaching her at home. The Levisons explained that they were Seventh-Day Adventists and that as far as they could see, their religion was strict on the matter. Said Mrs. Levison, quoting an Adventist text: "Parents are the best teachers of their children until they are eight to ten. Small children should be left free as lambs to run out of doors." As a former college student, Mrs. Levison thought she was fully qualified to teach. She had a complete set of second-grade texts...
...library was hot and full of people. All through the room, Vag could hear pages rustling and chairs creaking, and from the other side of the room, the slow rhythmic breathing of someone who had fallen asleep. Vag sat bunched over his text book with a pencil poised over a clean sheet of paper marked "Reading Notes." He concentrated: ". . . The establishment of a conditioned reflex means the establishment of a functional relation between a stimulus and a response not ordinarily associated with...
...strike little needles of sound. Vag counted them absentmindedly . . . seven, eight, nine, ten. Ten o'clock. The idea sank in slowly. Suddenly Vag sat bolt upright. How could he have been day-dreaming? The specter of examination welled up in his imagination in all its horror. The smug fat text and the cruel purple type on the assignment sheet seemed to be deriding him with silent mockery. Vag tore the ticket stubs to shreds, clenched his teeth, and read...
Sounds if repeated, the text suggested, will make an indelible impression on a sleeper's mind and he will be able to spout his restfully gained knowledge ever after. Young decided this was worth a try and consulted with WHRB technicians...
...article should be a supplementary text to every high-school history course, if nothing more than to bring the children up to date...