Education and EcstasyDelacorte Press, 1968 - 239 pages Education and Ecstasy, by George Leonard, was originally written as a call for reform in America's school systems. This book reveals the deep-rooted structural problems in American schools-problems which still plague us. Leonard proposes that long school days and tedious homework are not ways to encourage learning; that teachers are overworked and underpaid. He proposes ways to integrate new methods of teaching that are still valuable and applicable today. |
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Page 5
... classroom , any class- room , is an awesome place of shadows and shifting colors , a place of unacknowledged desires and unnamed powers , a magic place . Its inhabitants are tamed . After years of un- necessary repetition , they will be ...
... classroom , any class- room , is an awesome place of shadows and shifting colors , a place of unacknowledged desires and unnamed powers , a magic place . Its inhabitants are tamed . After years of un- necessary repetition , they will be ...
Page 108
... classroom control " plus waiting for other children to recite plus all the other unwieldy manipulations de- manded by the usual classroom environment leave less than ten percent of any child's time for anything that can remotely be ...
... classroom control " plus waiting for other children to recite plus all the other unwieldy manipulations de- manded by the usual classroom environment leave less than ten percent of any child's time for anything that can remotely be ...
Page 109
... classroom situation is re- pressive and antithetical to learning , the playground situa- tion , in direct ratio , is hyperactive and equally antithetical to learning . In true play , the child is intent , responsive , unhurried ...
... classroom situation is re- pressive and antithetical to learning , the playground situa- tion , in direct ratio , is hyperactive and equally antithetical to learning . In true play , the child is intent , responsive , unhurried ...
Contents
VISITING DAY 2001 A D | 139 |
WE FIND JOHNNY | 157 |
THE FUTURE NOW | 175 |
Copyright | |
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