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Wailing from a Park Avenue Presbyterian pulpit, Dr. Meiklejohn, director of the experimental college of the University of Wisconsin, covers himself with his usual sackcloth and ashes and vainly questioning, beats the un answering dust. Utterly discouraged with the futility of all educational institutions, this fiery and pessimistic crusader bitterly cites the Chinese famine, the disarmament conference, and the sordid evils of industrialism and finally points an interrogatory finger at the student, idle and ineffectual, at the teacher, cynical and discouraged. Inert ideas, learning unrelated to life, dullness in the classroom are some of the charges brought against modern education...
...Chicago, keeps remarkably young-looking for a man who is no longer young in years, has a married son, a married daughter. Scot Simpson lives not south but north of Chicago, in the fashionable and rich suburb of Glencoe where he has an estate on which his favorite diversion, un-traditionally, is tennis. He is by far the largest individual stockholder in Marshall Field...
When news of this reached Paris, the commonality of Frenchmen either tapped their foreheads significantly or exclaimed with rapture: "Voila un original...
...Science Monitor in format is the papal paper except that it carries no advertisements or cooking recipes, displays the triple tiara of the Pope and his crossed keys to Earth and Heaven. Though crime news is excluded, sensations are not. Thus a recent headline in L'Osservatore reads: Un bambino investito da un autocarro ("A little boy attacked [i. e. bumped] by an automobile"). Significant details were given. The car was un piccolo (a little one), the baby was un povero piccolo (a poor little one), and the cause of the accident was non bene accertate (not precisely known...
...calculated to encourage spontaneity of development in the child. Given the proper environment, the happy child can do no wrong. In no way must the individuality of a Montessori-trained youngster be arrested, nor is the pupil stimulated to any unnatural effort. The system of "rewards & punishment" is un-Montessorian because it encourages the child to do something it would not want to do otherwise. A child who is not mentally or physically sick must become "master of himself" when at liberty. Platonically, he has then become disciplined. Parents are assured that Montessori-trained children are not told, ballad-wise...