FOSTERING HUMANE EDUCATION

...conditions will not change unless society is "deschooled" or transformed through democratic socialism, etc...

...Physical cruelty, though it often occurs, is not the question...

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...To give the authors "confidence and courage to do more, and better," Koch began by finding and praising--sincerely--poetic elements in the students' prosy first efforts...

...a self-protective academic consensus helps secure careers in a shrinking job market...

...and indeed in any new situation, the classics never look like 'classics,' nor, in the present state of literature, are they likely to be books . . . . The mistake has been to study monuments of classical a g e s . . , rather than to assume that we are presently creating classics _9 . . and a common culture by p h i l o - sophical handling of just where we ere on our way...

...Dialogue: Suitable courses may be selected from other Faculties or from othac univendtim in Montreal, French or English...

...The result: liveliness, "increased clarity, concentration, and confidence...

...Profeg~lonel Education the educational procees emphasizes learning from exfor Ordination: perleflca and features SUlO~vised fmld placement, preaching, worship, church education and structures, and C.P.E...

...But Hentoff presents us with a handful of schools where children do learn...

...thus humanities education is debased...

...appallingly higher percentages cannot read properly...

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...This is a classic of Christian witness...

...F~r Information: Dean Joleph C. McLelland ,~IB~ Unlvendty Street, Montreal, Quiet, Canada H3A 2A7 Telephone: (S14) 312-41128 book: "I don't think I would like to adjust to a life without imagination or accomplishment, and I don't 'believe my students wanted to either . . . . What this means in teaching is, first, believing that students such as ours are capable of writing poetry, and of continuing to do it and of getting better at it...

...Kenneth Koch, a gifted and intelligent poet, went to a nursing home to teach poetry not as "distracting or consoling therapy," hut as art...

...that "approached strong emotions in indirect ways" and surprised the students into finding themselves and their feelings...

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...But rather than a "new approach" to the teachrng of the humanities, globetrotting and exalted perspective merely produced timeworn convictions recollected in well-paid tranquillity...

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...But this commitment to the individual student in his full context--if the challenge does not break them--makes teachers learn, strengthens their humane values, makes them admirable models for students and society...

...In tracing the historical thread of The Resurrection According to Matthew, Mark, and Luke NORMAN PERRIN Norman Perrin utilizes his vast New Testament scholarship to enrich our appreciation and understanding of the resurrection of Jesus as central to Christian life...

...Mattingly tries tO relate ideas to group and especially generational experiences...

...It is as if people, who at first "seemed old, sick, tired, uncomfortable," few of whom had ever written anything, let alone poetry, had succeeded in articulating their lives into a kind of Spoon River Anthology...

...yet mere selfserving, subtly racist, or ideological rationalizations have been offered for these facts: "certain kinds of children from certain kinds of backgrounds can learn only a certain amount...

...295 Paperback Praying the Psalms LESLIE E. STRADLING Choosing twenty-six favorite Psalms, Bishop Stradling shows how the problems they confront can speak to the individual today...

...3.50 Paperback LOving Ourselves RAY ASHFORD The popular pastor and author of Take It Easy shows how each person can enhance an honest selfregard by cultivating the three components of a healthy self love -- individuality, self-acceptance, and self-discipline...

...Drawing on massive nation-wide surveys, noted social scientist Andrew M. Greeley demolishes this widelya c c e p t e d s t e r e o t y p e which, despite its demonstrable falsehood, continues to haunt America's largest minority group...

...Spirited and s e r i o u s . . . p r o v o c a t i v e facts for the thoughtful r e a d e r . " - - P u b l i s h e r s Weekly THEAMERICA N CATHOLIC A Social Portrait Andrew M. Greeley $15.00 at bookstores or direct from the publisher...

...9 . . Eagerness to talk about what they thought and felt had replaced reticence, vagueness, and, for some, silence...

...52.95 Paperback The Valley of the Shadow HANNS LILJE Bishop Lilje's personal account of his Gestapo imprisonment after the abortive attempt on Hitler's life in 1944 is a remarkal~e testimony to the power of faith in a time of crisis...

...of Chicago Press, $9.95 The Experiment o f KNowledge JOHN F. GARDNER Waldorf Press, $8.95 GEORGE W. SllEA In The Classless Profession Paul H. Mattingly presents a critical study of the experience of three generations of nineteenth century school teachers...

...education" through threat and humiliation is a symbol and a symptom: we vent guilty rage on the dumb kids who make our schools fail by refusing to learn...

...Nat Hentoff used a Guggenheim grant to stick close to home and rub our noses in the down-to-earth realities of our public schools, mostly those in New York City: 23% of a/l school children fail to graduate...

...they point toward a fruitful future for ,humane attitudes and mankind, a focus on the present that integrates vital activity (artistic production, community and political involvement, etc...

...Corporal punishment"---school children are the only Americans who can legally be beaten--is allowed in 80 percent of our public schools...

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...For inspiration, he brought them music and flowers, shells and bits of the seashore, poetry ideas (similar to those he used with young children in Wishes, Lies, and Dreams and Rose, Where Did You Get That Red...

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...This simple commitment struggles against the odds of budget cuts and communities allowed to stew in drug addiction and dilapidation...

...Koch's introductory essay and comments on the poetry ideas and poems form a kind of journal that puts us in touch with a sensitive, humane teacher examining his successes, failures, presuppositions, and goals, learning from his engagement with students and fostering their awareness of self and possibility...

...But it rests on certain assumptions that are worth questioning, especially since Hentoff and Koch suggest an alternative approach to fostering humane development...

...He can -= . . . . - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - --- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . speak for the varied voices in Hentoff's McGILL UNIVERSITY, Montreal Faculty of Religious Studies THB)I.OGICAL EDUCATION I N . . . --M(mtllml: a I~ingual city of ~ , Canada, where French is the priority language and the predominant culture...

...If the humanities are not taught well, Kaufmann warns, chances for the survival of "humane attitudes and mankind" are "almost nil...

...Rigorous intellectual study of these texts in their relevant contexts and evaluation of the alternatives they offer exposes students to "vital culture shock," enables them to assess their own and Are you prejudiced against Catholics...

...Thece are now 80 candidates for ministry in the Faculty (B.Th...

...Must the present be considered secondary, void of human potential, or meaningless unle'~ somehow illuminated by the past...

...The Faculty includes speck~ts in ~ , the Indian Religions, and the Institute of IMandr Studies...

...almost inevitably it takes teachers and principals beyond transmission of information and maintenance of discipline, towards individualized instruction, even informal social work and therapy, or conununity organizing...

...This is traditional humanism with slight refurbishing (a core course in comparative religion---with emphasis on the literary and ethical values of the world's major religious scriptures, especially the Bible--and interdisciplinary courses in topics such as punishment-including visits to trials and work in prisons...

...Kaufmann harks back to the notion of classics: the past's legacy of "the best" literary and philosophic works in which writers have argued for "striking" or I "memorable" ethical alternatives...

...Thus, each chapter deals with the fates of individual teachers and the institutions they fostered...

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...He examines the conditions of their lives and the transformations of their values during the century-long course of professionalization which they underwent...

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...The litany of failure is familiar enough...

...The reader is, given in this way a somewhat more palpable understanding of the origin of significant ideas and of the changes which the teaching profession underwent...

...NAT HENTOFF Knop/, $8.95 i Net~,~" Told . 4 n l b o d l : Teaeh|lq~ PoetsTi W r i t i N f f iN a NNrsINg J~om~ KENNETH KOCH Random House, $8.95 Professor Kaufmann's book is the product of a long itinerary...

...hyperspecialist teclmicians dredge up vast amounts of data (on increasingly smaller and more trivial topics) which only other hyperspecialists can understand...

...several poems (by Lawrence, Keats, .Whitman, O'Hara, Chinese poets) provided stances or techniques students might explore_9 The pattern of the sessions: "suggestions leading t o works, works t o admiration, excitement and thought, and these to new suggestions and thoughts...

...Taken as a whole, the writing in Koch's book is peculiarly impressive and moving...

...To counter them, Kaufmann would cultivate the "Socratic" personality, the critical spirit that plays gadfly to society's sacred cows, its unexamined assumptions in faith and morals...

...Traditional humanists answer yes, and worship "monuments of unaging intellect...

...Anglican, Presbyterian and United Church Colleges are directly affiliated with the Faculty of Religiou|Studies...

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...Koch and Hentoff bring humane values to...

...it can offer an extremely valuable education...

...Mattingly finds that from the beginning teachers were not firmly rooted in the social structure of the nation, and that they consciously strove to be above and outside of considerations of social status and political maneuvering...

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...The students learned that poetry is a natural, festive, social activity...

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...McGIII: o~ of Canada's firlt and finest univerlitlel, where ecumenical theologieal education goes back to 1912...

...Do we discover or create values and possibilities only through the application of critical/contemplative intelligence to the collection of texts which is the past...

...And in every c a s e you would be wrong...

...He gave "respectfully determined interest in their imaginings and perceptions," critical collaboration 15 April 1977:248 on theft work, "ways to make [the poems] better--more inclusive, more intense, more musical...

...A simple and joyful approach...

...After he had spent time in Australia and Jerusalem as a visiting researcher, the Rockefeller Foundation graciously offered him "the distance needed to discuss so large a subject" as the future of the humanities: a stay at the Villa Serbelloni and "a small study in the woods, on the edge of a high cliff...

...with intellectual analysis, and moves toward an attitude emphasized by Paul Goodman, among others: "The true classics are the structures . . . that are in fact operative in the present juncture, urban, industrial, depersonalized, or whatever . . . what is classical is simply what is central, concrete, casually operative, underlying...

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...effective, practical life in the present...

...many other denominations are represented in the staff of 18...

...Not of any single magic method~appreaches range from traditional and even authoritarian classes to open classrooms and special groups for problem "uneducables"--but of crucial common factors of attitude and devotion: these people respect children, expect them to learn, and hold themselves accountable for finding ways to help them do so...

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...Yet superficial journalists publish ephemera, teach and tout fads...

...Even if y o u ' r e one yourself, you probably believe that most Catholics are: i blue-collar workers high-school educated i_ politically conservative [ i unassimilated ethnics...

...This impulse, largely attributable to the quasi-evangelical nature of the profession and its early emphasis upon the vague notion of "character," led teachers to characterize themselves as "classless," to avoid direct political action and the development of their own social and educational theories and structures...

...EIliott Shapiro in Our Children Are Dying, Hentoff lets teachers, principals, and administrators speak for themselves, and we learn from them...

...10 E. 53rd St., New York 10022 Commonweal: 247 their society's goals with salutary historical and cultural perspective, humanizes them...

...diplomas are next to valueless~ and these conditions are generally worse in ghetto areas...