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Teachers Spend Too Much Time Teaching, TASK IS TO GET THE STUDENT Wednesday Evening, March 8, 1967-LUBBOCK AVALANCHE JOURNAL TO LEARN BY THINKING By NEW YORK (AP) In the half century Dr. Ben D. Wood has devoted to making schools better he has brought to stake piany of academia's sacred cows. tices some classroom: pracStill, One trouble, continue he to distress teachers spend too says, much 1 time that! is teaching. has long insisted that the task of the teacher is not to follow a rigid curriculum, but to get the student to learn by thinking.

"A child's mind is not an empty, teacher basket to into receive what pours it," he said. "It has taken us more than 2,000 years appreciate the lesson of Socrates that education is the stimulation of. creative thinking." Responsive To Individual Wood, director of the Bureau of Collegiate Educational Research at Columbia University and professor emeritus at Columbia College, has been concerned primarily during his career with making education responsive to the individual. Lean, with thinning silver hair, Wood is at 72 possessed of strong opinions and unshakable convictions, backed up by credentials that include devel-1 opment of an objective means of measuring achievement and introduction of the Pitman alphabet, which Wood says is phonemically consistent and compatible with the Roman alphabet. "The tragedy of education today," Wood said, "is that DOCTOR REPORTS Harm Cited In Spanking MUNICH, Germany (AP) Beating a child on the seat of his pants can lead to later damage, a West German doctor says.

Dr. Felicitas Hammer, in study on the effects of corporal punishment, said thrashings on the backside can dislodge tiny fatty particles which may subsequently cause blood to clot in the brain. may, giddiness, then suffer from headaches, forgetfulness and loss of concentration, she said. Dr. Hammer warned against all forms of corporal punishment.

Beating with a stick can cause a fatal shock, she said. The Hudson's Bay Companya firm that began exchanging 300 years trades heads for beaver, skins almost furs in remote Canadian outposts. a fourth grader to a sophomore. "Some people call this codding and say it lowers standto ards. Actually, it's the only raise standards.

And it way would take less teachers, because learning children interested in don't bother the teacher." front With William S. Learned, conduct 1927 to 1930, Wood helped evaluative testing survey of colthe first statewide leges and secondary schools. The survey, called the Pennsylvania Study, was sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The foundation referred in its 1965-66 report to the survey as an consequence" undertaking of and "considerable "the (study revealed clearly the weakness of the course credit system as a way of measuring academic progress (though the practice continues unabated today);" Wood said: "This is what Shakespeare would call the most pregnant parenthesis in the history ofl (foundation reports. 'Continues unabated We might as well have studied how to make ice on the moon to cool the Remains Optimistic Nevertheless, he remains optimistic that his concepts will continue to gain within the academic community, Wood describes objective testing as a "yardstick to measure achievement that will mean the same thing every year anywhere to every teacher and stuIdent." To critics who contend that tests repress Inality by requiring stereotyped, multiple-choice answers, Wood says "the tests can do that if you use them that way.

But they must be tailored to fit the needs' of he child." Since retirement from bia College in 1960, he has maintained an office near the campus. Close at hand are just two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. Though he considers the English language "one of the greatest triumphs of the human mind," the books are in Spanoflish, reflecting his early bil-! HELP FOR THE STUDENT Effective Reading Training Improves Reading Skills Visual Skills Study Skills Listening Skills Experienced And Degree Teachers ARMISTEAD VISION READING CENTER 2132 50th Street Lubbock SH 7-1635 Buddy's Super Save Offers FREE COLOR PORTRAIT Professionally posed not a snapshot We've arranged for a nized professional photographer to take color portraits right in our store on the dates shown below. You can have each member of the family photographed in several poses, and pick any one of them for your free portrait. We only ask that all children be accompanied by a parent.

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He has insisted that the task of the teacher is not to follow a long rigid thinking. curriculum, but to get the student to learn by (AP Wirephoto) teachers leach children cribed courses laid down by supres-Jhad pervisors in higher education offices who have set themselves! up as tin gods as to what should be taught and who couldn't care less about students as Intellectual Paupers "Our schools are turning out, a intellectual paupers who come to depend on the teacher. Curiosity is a precious gift, and we must be careful not to vaccinate the child against it." Wood said that when he was a teacher "if a student asked a question I'd shoot it right backi that's the only way to teach. That's the way you lead them to (think." He agrees, certain facts must be supplied the student, "but even then he should; be given reasons." To bring about more individualized education, Wood said, "we need complete reorienta-1 of the objectives and of teacher colleges. We need to change the duties of the Why, what it the doctor! not improved his techniques in the past 100 years? He'd Outlaw Formula "I'd outlaw the formula he said, "and I'd make the ungraded school a first.

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