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on theft work, "ways to make [the poems] better--more inclusive, more intense, more musical"; several poems (by Lawrence, Keats, .Whitman, O'Hara, Chinese poets) provided stances or techniques...
...In one of the cases Cottle writes about, an epileptic child was expelled even though the medication he was taking kept his epilepsy under control...
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...The second part of Lortie's book emphasizes the meaning which teachers themselves give to their work...
...the whole purport of this book is to show that he wandered with a purpose, and that - - l , iterally, or metaphorically--he wandered under the embroidered sign of the Cross...
...Lay or religious...
...Above all, Gardner insists that knowledge must be grasped by the whole being, mind, heart and will, not, as in traditional pedagogies, by mind alone or, as in more progressive ones, by will alone...
...As Lortie points out, there are two million teachers in America today...
...It is an interesting political and sociological question, and an important one for our nation...
...effective, practical life in the present...
...The first four chapters of Schoolteacher examine the history of schoolteaching and the structural features of the profession...
...Letters of not more than 250 or 300 words naturally have a better chance o] being published...
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...and men are linked with one another by participation in the same rationality and the knowledge it brings...
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...Moreover, it seems to me the number would grow impressively as time passed and the hab/t became entrenched...
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...THE WXNDERmO YEARS), by Anthony Mockler...
...Mattingly tries tO relate ideas to group and especially generational experiences...
...Barred From School is a series of case histories showing some of the shocking ways in which children who are' fully entitled to an education are denied it...
...an increase in the power of bargaining units with a consequent demand for accountability...
...For informetion write: Director, Spirituallty Program, Theology Department, Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y...
...Busing begins with the premise that one's stance on the issue is a statement about one's identity, so Cottle does more than just collect opinions about busing...
...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...
...Beyond this, he implies that the system of school need not preclude intense human contact...
...Programs in Studio Arts, Drama, Athletics and 8 wide range of other extracurrleutar activities complement the academic curriculum which covers the requiremente for admission to all colleges and universities while featuring an expanded elective program in all disciplines...
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...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...
...McCarthy, it is that the Hart poll--Commonweal welcomes letters on subjects treated in its pages...
...It is, however, clearly what the author has intended it to b e - - a scholarly, somewhat "tilted," rendering of a mass of "disputable facts...
...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...
...Religious and lay faculty...
...He discusses as well the attractions of a teaching career, including traditional ideas such as "dealing with people," "service," "security" and "free time...
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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...
...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...
...Mockler confronts this question in his Preface: " . . . if the present biography has any new value, it lies in this--that it has attempted to cast its net rather wider, though no doubt less profoundly, and to study the effect not of Francis on his environment, but of his environment, in the widest sense, including both contemporary history and contemporary literature, on Francis's life...
...Must also have experience in a secondary administrative post...
...Pre-raglstration nece.ary...
...but it will no doubt reassure the more statistically minded that these impressionistic notions are borne out by more empirical study...
...Method in Theelogy...
...His findings are based on recent surveys, research studies and interviews, whose results, he admits, are not always quantifiable...
...High School P r i n c i p a l NEEDED: PRINCIPAL for Catholic secondary school...
...Hart--and myself, for that matter --have all been around politics long enough to understand that an issue which activates citizens, or a candidate who motivates them, can emerge to renew interest in those who've lost it and quicken it among those who haven't...
...All to save us from the psychological woes that come on when the constantly changing landscape robs us of our orientation and pride of place...
...7 - 1 2 , '77m ~Write for Information', -~11A*NOJ.H9nVH A~IVWqSO~ professionalization Mattingly illustrates the shift from the first generation's emphasis on voluntarism, "awakening" and character to later teachers' interest in the skills of teaching...
...Koyama, one of the most engaging of modern theologians, offers a meditation on Christianity from South East Asia which has much to offer to the Western churches...
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...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...
...He is himself an idealist and transcendentalist, who derives his philosophy from that of the Austrian thinker RudoSph Steiner...
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...When a child is made to feel that his inability to achieve is entirely his responsibility, and not the responsibility of the instituUon that is supposed University of NOTRE DAME Summer Programs in Liturgy and Theology June 20-Aug...
...This noble and compassionate approach transforms a campaign to set education straight into a crusade for human dignity...
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...The book stands in marked contrast to several rather pious accounts (Chesterton's aside) of the man who was Francis of Assisi...
...With 54.4 percent of all eligibles voting, the ratio is less than one non-voter for every voter...
...This is done in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and the fact that large numbers of voters in these states showed up election day 1976 and registered and v~ted on the spot argues that such national law would si~niflcantly increase voting participation...
...The last institutional development touched upon by Mattingly, the rise of the superintendency with executive and coercive power, suggests the failure of teachers themselves to manage their own schools and to deal directly with the increasing powers of local boards and state departments of education...
...Mockler chooses to neglect the later, more passive, years of Francis's life in deference to the earlier, wandering ones...
...15 April 1977:254 phers treat as simply one more incident in Francis's life...
...At times, Mockler's stress on the b i z a r r e a s p e c t s of Francis's character causes one to wonder about what must have been indeed a miraculous leap from eccentric to saint...
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...This abstract style also affects the portraits of individual teachers like Alcott, Mann, and Barnard...
...When a person's belief emerges in the context of a life story," he writes, "one no longer feels so free to disagree or to question...
...Let teachers re-examine the basic nature of their work, of teaching and learning, and redefine their profession...
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...Since 1971, when the school admitted girls, young ladies have en|oyed with the boys the modern and complete facilities located on the 150 acre campus in the Berkshire foothills...
...Mockler's scholarship is thorough, and his style is engaging...
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...As that movement was overwhelmed by the wave of scientism and experimentalism, the initial impulses of the teaching profession were lost...
...Children out of school are deprived of the camaraderie that grows in any classroom, of encouragement and a sense of self-worth, of the moment when a teacher "suddenly emerges as the most valuable human being in a "child's life," of the homeroom where, in the space of a few minutes, Cottle witnesses "every human emotion, every human gesture...
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...Experience uf the Interior Life...
...This reviewer found himself fleeing to Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering o/New England to recall what the intellectual life of 19th century America really was...
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...Steiner was the founder of the Waldorf Schools, one of which Gardner guided for many years...
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...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ~E~E~EHS mCH~V KUCZKOWSK[ teaches English and is book review editor of New York Arts Journal...
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...Anthony Mockler's Francis o] Assist (The Wandering Years) is not a devotional biography...
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...Unfortunately, one is often more conscious of Moclder as narrator, constantly speaking for Francis, than one is conscious of a sense of Francis...
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...Mockler's first chapter enumerates the existing sources on Francis's life and gives a brief history of the composition of the medieval biographies and some notes on the several modern biographies (scholarly and non-scholarly...
...He gives the people whose lives are touched by the controversy---even the children--a chance to speak for themselves...
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...A simple and joyful approach...
...he Religion Departmeut teaches courses in the New Testament, Christian doctrine, ethics, and apologetics...
...He traces as well the rise of various institutions, teachers' institutes, normal schools and especially The American Institute of Instruction, by which teachers attempted to escape the solitary nature of their calling and identify their profession...
...Mattingly's study is thorough and well-documented...
...Dan C. Lortie's book Schoolteacher is an empirical study of American teachers in our own age...
...The students learned that poetry is a natural, festive, social activity...
...In both books, Cottle suggests that on the political level, community involvement is the best way to see that all children get the quality education that is rightfully theirs...
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...No one should be denied this kind of experience...
...Justice Leahy's affirmation of the First Amendment was overshadowed in the news by Judge Vavuris's apotheosis of parental authority...
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...Cottle finds one school in which children were given tQ scores without ever having been tested and then assigned to classes on the basis of the fraudulent scores...
...Our school system was the product of the romantic and idealist movement of the last century, a movement inadequately presented by Mattingly...
...15 April 1977:252 Perhaps worse than to be thrown out o f school, especially for younger children, is to be placed in a "special" class because of a poor showing on some standardized test that measures only performance and not potential...
...John F. Gardner's The Experience o~ Knowledge represents a strikingly different approach to American education...
...All of these will require of teachers, Lortie concludes, greater collegial responsibility, professionalism and technical study...
...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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...Unhappily the Waldorf School tradition, in many ways so rich, seems to be dogged by this rigid philosophical nomenclature, which often results in a rather exclusive "initiates only" mentality...
...This is a classic of Christian witness...
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...Foundations of Christian Moral Life...
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...In short the themes of conservatism, individualism, and presentism are re-emphasized by the teachers' own sentiments about their work...
...BARBARA MUTKOSKI, an assistant professor at Bergen College in New Jersey, has appeared in Thought and America...
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...McCarthy erred in saying in the 1976 elections "there were three non-voters for every voter...
...Gardner proposes that the ills of American schools are attributable to the inadequate and unsound epistemology upon which their teaching rests...
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...The entire and basic issue," declar.ed New York Justice John L. Leahy, in throwing the Queens indictments out of court, "is whether or not . . . the defendants will be allowed to practice the religion of their choice--and this must b c -ansWered with a resounding affm~atire...
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...It assumes a spiritual reality beyond the physical world, and makes intelligence and reason unitary...
...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...
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...In spite of Mattingly's best effort they seem very flat and bloodless...
...Mockler sees Francis's going on crusade as the culminating event in his life, one which biographers of the Middle Ages dismiss briefly and which modern biograC l a s s i f i e d RATES: 60c a word, one time...
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...the absence among teachers of a consensus about the very nature of their task...
...McCarthy that we should try to find out exactly what turns whom off...
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...Suspension, for example, a frequent punishment for cutting classes (and a disciplinary tactic of dubious logic), often begins a pattern of exclusion that is hard to break...
...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...
...So do I. But when we find the key to that one, I'll settle for laws that guarantee substantially increased voter participation_~s national on' site election day registration will, as demonstrated by the Minnesota and Wisconsin experiences...
...Lortie finds that all of this drives the teacher to flee into the security of his or her own classroom, to insist on independence in methods, and often to resist interference from superiors or colleagues...
...Given the dreary, often empty landscape in which American schools are now located, Gardner's suggestion is not a bad one...
...The crusades, courtly love, the troubadours and the knights of the Round Table all seem to have had their influence...
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...I think, after all, the topic is one worth writing about...
...The book is also a brief history of American architecture, and a handbook on how to observe, sense, smell the built environment, and to evaluate its various components--stairways, fences, barns, factories and facades in relation to one another...
...in the first forty, Mockler renders him as a madman...
...If Lortie's predictions of more technology, stronger unions, and more government involvement are correct, the time for asking this fundamental and searching question is surely at hand...
...DENNIS VELLUCCI AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN ARCmTF.,CTUl~, by the National Trust /or Historic Preservation, Tony P. Wrenn and Elizabeth D. MoUoy...
...Natural Law Theory and Christian Ethics...
...At a later point in the text he writes: " . . . for even ff in the accounts of his life a certain air of pious convention muffles the saint and miracle-worker, the real man cavorts too, and indiscreetly leaps into eccentric prominence...
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...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...
...Confrontations With Death...
...B. M. Ahern, Richard Clifford, Robert Karris...
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...Not good, but certainly far better than she suggests...
...Lortie deals with what he calls the "special but shadowed" image of teaching and with the manner of entry into professional life, which he finds relatively easy and unmediated by extensive training...
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...Related to this complexity is the feeling of uncertainty which teachers experience both about their own skills and about the results they achieve...
...DENNIS VELLUCC[ teaches in the English Department at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles...
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...Gardner's epistemological premises will be unacceptable to some educators...
...15 April 1977:250 Lortie concludes with a presentation of three possible scenarios for the future and considers the changes which these will require in teachers' attitudes and styles...
...It deals with their rather traditional goals, "the development of good people," their admiration for discipline, mid their feeling that their craft is extraordinarily complex...
...5, 1977 M. A. Degree also One- and two-week intensive courses open to those not enrolled in regular program For information and brochure, write: Department of Theology University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 Summer Session.-Fordham University SPIRITUALITY PROGRAM June 28-August 5 Investigates Christian spirituality in its biblical, historical and contemporary perspectives...
...Gardner therefore advocates, as a first step, a freeing of American schools by putting them once more into the hands of teachers...
...like all others--is not written in stone, nor are its conclusions...
...He is hopeful that if they are given such freedom, teachers will develop a clearer vision of their task and of the needs of their students...
...degrees will be offered...
...The gap was filled largely by the building of administrative and bureaucratic structures...
...The tilt refers to the book's lack of formal balance...
...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...
...They are deprived of the human interaction that Cottle so perceptively recognizes as the essence of education...
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...It suffers from the fact that it is written in a highly abstract style, which includes a school of education vocabulary, heavy with terms whose meanings are not always immediately clear to the lay reader...
...Lortie's theme, then, is the search for the nature and content of the occupation's ethos...
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...BUSINO by Thomas 1. Cottle, Beacon .Press, $7.95 School-related controversies tend to be particularly volatile ones, both politically and emotionally, largely because parents who have spent eight or 12 or 16 or more years in school make a commitment to educate their children that is inevitably colored by their own experience...
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...He does feel, however, that teachers must have freedom to answer their students' natural questions about ultimates, a freedom now largely absent in public schools...
...In another, a 14-year-old girl was thrown out of high school because she was pregnant, and in still another, a boy was prohibited from attending classes because on an overnight camping trip with his eighth-grade classmates, it was discovered that he was a chronic bed-wetter...
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...to be educating him, he becomes defeatedat too early an age...
...Thus, each chapter deals with the fates of individual teachers and the institutions they fostered...
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...Realistically, he does not envisage an "overnight spiritualization" of American education...
...Write Sister Marianne, COLLEGE MISERICORDIA, Dallas, Pennsylvania 18612...
...What is most fascinating about Lortie's book is the manner in which his findings in 1975 reflect the same professional weakness suggested in Mattingly's study of the nineteenth century--this in spite of the widespread unionization of teachers which has occurred in the interim...
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...Finally he considers the unstaged nature of a teaching career, and the weak career incentives, which follow from it...
...McCarthy wants to move beyond that sort of thing to a citizenry that votes even in the absence of an allaffecting issue or "charismatic" candidates...
...For Gardner, as for Bhke, man sees through not with his eyes...
...Experience required, salary negotiable...
...Mockler tells us that it was during the last six years of Francis's life that he became a saint...
...In these early chapters Lortie begins to suggest some of the basic characteristics of the profession: its special attractiveness to women, its individualistic nature, and its conservatism...
...Mockler's tone is purposely good humored and irreverent...
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...With the vivid imagery that marked his Waterbuffalo Theology, Dr...
...One concludes, after reading The Classless Pro]ession that teachers in the nineteenth century were not entirely successful in identifying and strengthening their profession, certainly less successful than doctors and lawyers...
...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...
...Taken as a whole, the writing in Koch's book is peculiarly impressive and moving...
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...This oral history, then, presents a familiar type like the blue-collar worker, whose childhood hardships nurtured bigotry and who never had the need or the imagination to question and evaluate the attitudes 'he inherited from his parents for himself, not as a caricature but as a human being with whom we may not agree, but whom we cannot condemn...
...Paper $3.95, Cloth $7.95 NO MORE PLASTIC JESUS Global Justice and Christian Lifestyle by Adam Daniel Finnerty "This book asks for Christians to put their careers, their property, and their lives on the line so that the hungry may be fed, the naked clothed, the homeless sheltered, and the oppressed given dignity and hope...
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...Modern-day Franoiscans may take issue with his observations on their Order...
...Much of Gardner's book deals with the development of the whole person from infancy to adulthood, and with the teaching methods developed at Waldorf Schools for bringing children to a sound and intuitive understanding of themselves and their world...
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...But I would not want to get hung up on it at the cost of proceeding meantime toward a law to make voting as easy as possible through a national law permitting citizens to register at the polling sites on election day...
...It now has to provide more help for local fishermen and build a primary school...
...In his two new books, Busing and Barred From School, Thomas J. Cottle explores problems in modern education that have often been debated and discussed intellectually, but rarely given the more humanistic treatment they deserve...
...For Gardner the traditional teacher dehumanizes knowledge, and the progressive teacher merely fosters egotistical whim, without instilling the selfdiscipline which transcendence requires...
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...In several footnotes, Mockler speaks of the "rather shocking contrast" between conventional modern thought on certain issues and Francis's basically simple message...
...and their work and attitudes to that work are deserving of more attention than has been given them since the appearance of Willard Waller's Sociology o~ Teaching forty years ago...
...Indeed, the same poll, taken a couple or three years from now, could turn up more encouraging findings...
...Gardner admits that these methods cannot be quickly and easily adopted by American schools...
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...a "setback," but whether freedom of religion suffered a setback...
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...These include the challenge of greater technological advance in pedagogy...
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...The tilt, however, more accurately applies to tone...
...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...
...Nevertheless, it is possible that Gardner has put his finger on the heart Commonweal: 251 New from ORBIS NO HANDLE ON THE CROSS by Kosuke Koyama Asians are beginning to feel that Western Christianity has both preached and lived a Christianity without the Cross...
...Herbert W. Richardson, University of Toronto, June 17-19, 1977...
...The tragedy is that children who are barred from school are deprived of more than just learning algebra or chemistry or literature...
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...Gardner's suggestion obviously implies the dismantling of vast educational systems and the rejection of bureaucratic government control of education...
...Firmly established as one of the leading preparatory schools of New England, Canterbury offers an atmesphere of scholastic excellence while the permanent effect of the religious life of the school gives Catholic boys and girls 8 sound moral preparation for life in the modern world...
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...BAglSAI~A MUTgOSKI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CORRESPONDENCE (Continued/rom page 227) some citizens would still refrain from voting if we were to trundle the booth directly into their homes and offer to pull the levers for them...
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...But this debate is best left to the Franciscan reader...
...Steiner's and Gardner's thought is Platonic through and through, and may be uncongenial to many academics today...
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...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...
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...Even those who embrace a spiritual world-view may find his classical formulation of the nature of mind an obstacle to the dialogue with modern psychologists that needs to occur...
...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...
...This reviewer, a former schoolteacher, found many of the conclusions fairly obvious...
...In referring to Bonaventure's biography, Mockler bemoans the fact that only a glimpse of the true Francis comes through: " . . . a man who was more eccentric and more outrageous and indeed more loony than ever his careful biographer would wish to admit...
...and finally the creation of larger educational systems with the bureaucracies they will foster...
...Cap., and George Maloney, S.J...
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...This is not a coffee4able book of pretty pietm'es or a lament for lost venerable landmarks gutted by indifference or greed, but a most "beantilul" book with a message and, I hope, longrange political impact: a plea for preservation-sometimes through conversion to new cmnmercial use--of the "vernacular and background" architecture that gives its community a unique personality...
...Write: DIGNITY, 75S Boylston St., Room 413, Boston, Me...
...of Theological Studies, St...
...The result: liveliness, "increased clarity, concentration, and confidence...
...Incarnation ef God...
...The transition strains one's credulity...
...Write: Director...
...9 . . Eagerness to talk about what they thought and felt had replaced reticence, vagueness, and, for some, silence...
...Pantheon, $20...
...It is apparent from Lortie's study that even the elaborate sysfems of Dewey and his followers have not captured the imagination of teachers, let alone of students...
...Why write still another biography, one might ask...
...John J. Reydel, Princeton A.B, Harvard Ed.M., Headmaster, Canterbury School New Milford, Con...
...American Catholic Experience...
...Lortie's book is written in a clear, if somewhat flat, style...
...Write: NCPS, 334 W. Beardsley Ave., Elkhart, Ind...
...Moniku K. Hellwig, Georgetown University, June 24-26, 1977...
...T h e C / a s s / e s s Professiom PAUL H. MATI'INOLY New York Univ...
...D i g n i t y DIGNITY, an organization of gay and concerned Catholics, working for a more informed theology and pastoral approach to sexuality...
Vol. 104 • April 1977 • No. 8
