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 55
... learning . Some psychologists and physiologists have defined what may be termed " optimal " ages for given types of learning , as if these periods exist apart from the nature of the en- vironment . They do indeed exist in any given ...
... learning . Some psychologists and physiologists have defined what may be termed " optimal " ages for given types of learning , as if these periods exist apart from the nature of the en- vironment . They do indeed exist in any given ...
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... learning for all life is written on the same tablets . Learning can occur , not just during the life of a single organism , but in species - long spans , on a geo- logical time scale . This species - long learning ( without ap- peal to ...
... learning for all life is written on the same tablets . Learning can occur , not just during the life of a single organism , but in species - long spans , on a geo- logical time scale . This species - long learning ( without ap- peal to ...
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George Leonard. sequent condition . Life's interdependence is total . The chain of learning is endless . Why do some species succeed in learning from their en- vironments while others fail ? For the same reason that your child succeeds ...
George Leonard. sequent condition . Life's interdependence is total . The chain of learning is endless . Why do some species succeed in learning from their en- vironments while others fail ? For the same reason that your child succeeds ...
Contents
VISITING DAY 2001 A D | 139 |
WE FIND JOHNNY | 157 |
THE FUTURE NOW | 175 |
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