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 75
... whole idea of punishment as a prime education tool was probably born with the Agricultural Revolution . It is certain that by the time the ancient cities of Meso- potamia and Egypt sprang up along the Fertile Crescent , both ...
... whole idea of punishment as a prime education tool was probably born with the Agricultural Revolution . It is certain that by the time the ancient cities of Meso- potamia and Egypt sprang up along the Fertile Crescent , both ...
Page 105
... whole thing - boredom , jungle rot , water up to the waist in foxholes , people dying all around them . As it turned out , the guy who stands up under all this is the one who would be considered to have had a very fortunate childhood ...
... whole thing - boredom , jungle rot , water up to the waist in foxholes , people dying all around them . As it turned out , the guy who stands up under all this is the one who would be considered to have had a very fortunate childhood ...
Page 106
... whole area of book learning . We'd have to show them how to reinforce their children's exploratory behavior whenever possible . Most of all , we'd have to teach them to spend a lot more time just leaving them alone - and perhaps ...
... whole area of book learning . We'd have to show them how to reinforce their children's exploratory behavior whenever possible . Most of all , we'd have to teach them to spend a lot more time just leaving them alone - and perhaps ...
Contents
VISITING DAY 2001 A D | 139 |
WE FIND JOHNNY | 157 |
THE FUTURE NOW | 175 |
Copyright | |
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