CONTEMPORARY NONSENSE
THIS YEAR IN EDUCATION
AT THE
NEW SCHOOL
IDEAS ARE
HIGH
EXPLOSIVES!
864 courses start September 22
Master Charge credit cards ac–
cepted at in-person registration.
(Chelsea Clinton News,
August 26,
1971. )
KENT, Ohio, August 3 (AP) -
Dr. Glenn Olds, newly appointed
president of Kent State Universi–
ty, said today . . . that the shoot–
ing deaths of four Kent State stu–
dents on May 4, 1970, "is not
typical of universities and that it
was an accident and probably
would not happen again." . . .
Olds, a fonner representative to
the United Nations, said, "What
happened at Kent, in my view, is
accentuated convergence of ...
pressures ' in decision-making and
confrontation."
(Chicago Tribune,
August 4,
1971.) Contributed by Carl John–
son, Chicago, Illinois. K. M. Ko–
dama, Tokyo, Japan, submitted a
similar quote from the
Asahi
Evening News,
Tokyo.
A study being released today
concludes that, measured by the
input-output yardsticks more com–
monly applied to other industries,
"there is a strong possibility that
there has been no productivity
change in the production of high–
er education."
The study, "Resource Use in
Higher Education," . . . seems to
confinn that higher education
has
operated as a handicraft industry
- basically unaffected by techno–
logical advances and automation–
in which input and output have
grown at about the same rate.
(The New York Times,
July 8,
1971. )
Educators and guidance coun–
selors should use "every art and
science" . . . to know their pupils
better, ... Isaiah E. Robinson, the
president of the city Board of Ed–
ucation, said yesterday.
Speaking at a forum held by the
Public Education Association, Mr.
Robinson said that "if astrology is
correct," the reason some pupils
pose behavior problems was not
because they were emotionally dis–
turbed but because their "birth
signs" conflicted with those of
other children or, perhaps, those
of the teacher....
(The New York Times,
October
8, 1971.)
WAR AND PEACE
IN 3 HOURS
AND 35 MINUTES.
Evelyn Wood
Reading Dynamics Institute
Portland
(Portland
Oregonian,
August
1971.) Contributed by John M.
Gogol, Forest Grove, Oregon.
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