MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1969
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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and word cards; they have primers,
storybooks and reference books at all
levels; they read to each other and
to the teacher, and write stories of
their own.
Math is taught by the manipulation
of such objects as blocks counters,
plastic shapes, scales, balances,
clocks and measuring devices. Often
the activity seems like play, but it
has a purpose.
When a child decides he is through
with an activity, regardless of what
others are doing, he may put away
his equipment and begin something
else.
The teachers have an eye for
everything and everyone, but the
children seek the teacher only when
they need aid, advice or attention.
She is free to travel from group
to group, help children with spelling,
restore order when necessary, suggest
new activities, or to consult with any
child needing individual help.
Flaws
This system is designed to deal with
several specific flaws in regular
education. One of these flaws is an
enforced uniformity of interest, in
volvement, work-rate and ability.
In a standard classroom every child
is expected to be truly interested in
math for 45 minutes and to work an
arbitrary number of problems in ex
actly that time.
In a second and third grade room
at Elliot, a small boy came in from
recess, watched his 40 or 5 0
classmates hustle to their various ac
tivities, and then turned to a table
in the math center.
Using a long-armed balance scales
and various weights, he was teaching
himself that 15 plus 7 equals plus 4
that equals and other simple facts that
in a few years would become basic algebra-He
was soon joined by a friend, and
they began a mutual quiz-competition
playtime to show their new knowledge
to an observer.
Later a younger girl put away her
crayons, took her picture to the
teacher and sat at another table in
the math center. She began to play
a flash-card bingo game, and in
cidentally to learn addition and sub
traction. Six girls were at an art table cutting
and pasting and making pastel tissue
paper designs. One group of boys was
engaged in drawing Safety Week
posters and another in preparing the
daily log of the classes' activities.
One boy decided to do his poster later
and joined the log writers.
In lower grades, reading is taught
in an unorthodox fashion. A child will
draw a picture and the teacher will
encourage him to tell a story about
it. The story, often recited into a tape
recorder, is then typed and given to
the student.
Generally students enjoy their
stories, but tire of having to find some
one to read to them. Teachers
report that sooner or later a student
asks someone teacher, aide,
schoolmate to help him to read.
Hooked
"Once a kid asks to learn, he is
hooked," Hardy said.
All of this activity is voluntary.
Work, play and learning are in
distinguishable and children are free
to learn as rapidly or slowly as they
could.
"Because the children don't all have
to be straight-jacketed, into learning,
I'm free to help and encourage a shy
little girl to go through the workbook
with a poor reader, to touch a black
child who would never be touched in
a regular classroom," commented one
Tri-U teacher.
Another important aspect of the
project is the acceptance of students'
ideas. Another teacher commented:
"When the teacher does all the
talking or the class has to understand
pages 41-50 in an hour, there is no
time for any student to express his
or her idea, even if they were given
time to form one."
Also the stress on ac
culturalization, the teaching of the
"proper" culture, presents an em
phasis on conformity, according to Dr.
James Britton. a linguistic theorist
at the University of London Institute
of Education.
The child is not encouraged to speak
out, because his culture is not the
one being taught. His culture in many
cases is the one being exterminated,
Britton says.
Because of this, the classroom
vocabulary traditionally bears no
references to love, hate, violence,
wars, the "street," or the ghetto. Thus
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education has often served to stifle
inquiry, intellectual individualism,
and discovery.
Ideas
In the Tri-U. classrooms, the
emphasis is on the students ideas.
A sixth grade teacher said that, "The
kids are encouraged to talk about
everything. They learn that their
ideas can be good, and not that
whatever they say will be discounted
or denied. When that happens they
really open up and talk to everybody."
A visitor to the classroom is im
mediately accepted as a friend, and
as, such is questioned, teased,
and sincerely talked to.
"Are you a hippy?", one of the
first-graders asked a visitor.
"Were you born a hippy?" and "Do
you have a mommy hippy?" were
also demanded. Before all questions
could be answered, the observer was
whisked off to help draw dinosaurs.
Posters
Outside the fourth grade classroom
were children's posters dealing with
war, love, outer-space and modern
language. There was a short essay
attached to a "War Never Will Help"
poster.
"I think war is dangerous. That's
pretty stupid of me. Because
everybody knows that war is
dangerous. But who am I. I am only
one person. I think we have a war
to keep down pop (ulation). I am
only 10."
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says application
due on Tuesday
Applications for Nebraska Union
committees are due Tuesday In the
Program Office.
Union committees on films, campus
speakers, trips, entertainers, style
shows, art exhibits and other pro
grams will be formed after the ap
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"Union committees are open to all
University students," said Dave Bun
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by Steve Sinclair
Nebraskan Sports Writer
The Nebraska freshmen
football team carries a 10
game winning streak, span
ning three seasons, into its
opening game at Missouri
next Friday.
Missouri was the last team
to dump the froSh in 1968.
Since Bob Devaney came to
Nebraska, the freshmen
team has won 20 games and
lost only two. The other set
back also was to Missouri in
1965.
The progress of this year's
team has been a little slower
than teams in the past, ac
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Bill Thornton. The reason for
this, he indicated, is that all
the players are learning to go
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"We still have our best
defensive players on one
unit, and our best offensive
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be the No. 2 defense. They
plan to give each team equal
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More strength
Thornton said that the
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Tackle will be one of the
stronger positions on this
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Rioh Glover, of Jersey City
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quickness and could be our
best defensive player,''
Thornton said.
Other defensive standouts
have been John Dutton, a
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Battling for positions in the
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Top players In the of
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