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PET of the WEEK
_ By Ben Parrish ■
JAMES ELLIOTT WITH
REX
“Beware of Dog”, the
small sign reads. It stands as
a warning to anyone who
dares to harbor any thoughts
of wrongdoing around the
Sanford Elliott home.
Rex is the name of the dog
to which the sign refers. He is
a registered German Shep
herd that was trained at a
canine security company in
Atlanta.
James Elliott, owner of the
dog, says that Rex can be
friendly “once you get to
know him.” When the Elliotts
first got Rex, he just barked
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YOU-GOOD AT LOOKING AHEAD?
1. It has been predicted
that by 1990, the number
of households in America
will be (a) over 90 million
(b) nearly 40 million (c)
around 500,000?
2. It has been predicted
that by the year 2000, we
will be using (a) a greater
amount of plastics (b) a
lesser amount (c) about tlie
same as we do now?
3. It has been predicted
that by 1985, the number
of American college stu
dents will be (a) less than
today (b) about the same as
today (c) greater than to
day?
Answers:
1. (a) According to the
U. S. Bureau of the Census,
by 1990 there could be as
many as 90 million house
holds in America, 20 million
more than there were in
1975. 2. (a) According to a
report by the Stanford Re
search Institute, by the end
of the century we should be
Latin is alive and well
French is elegant, Itali
an is romantic, Spanish is
exciting, but Latin is far
from dead!
When choosing your lan
guage studies in both high
school and college, don’t
cast Latin aside as some
thing old and stodgy.
Latin, while no longer
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at everyone. As James began
to feed him, Rex became
friendlier, barking less.
Before long, James was
able to train Rex to do some
simple tricks, such as
shaking hands and staying.
James now even wrestles
with Rex and comes out
alive.
Just looking at Rex is
enough to see the average
person. His big opal eyes are
penetrating. As Mrs. Elliott
says, “it’s like he’s looking at
you as if you’re an
hor’doeuvre.”
using so much plastic—to re
place parts of human bodies
that fail, to package prod
ucts in environmentally ac
ceptable containers, and
once recycled, for fuel—that
the plastics industry will
grow from 1 to 7.2 percent ■
of the Gross National Prod
uct and employ 1.3 percent
of the labor force. 3. (c)
According to the U.S. Bu
reau of the Census, there
probably will be about
10,207,000 college students
in America by the year
1985, a million more than
in 1975.
actively spoken, is still a
creative course of study.
A year of fundamental
Latin will do wonders for
your understanding of
English derivatives, the
basis of all Romance lan
guages, and sentence
structure and written com
munication in general.
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Today’s education —an exciting challenge
Expert explains the meaning
of i relevance 9 in education
By JOHN RYOR
President, National
Education Association
Everyone, it often seems,
is deeply concerned' about
the relevance, or lack of
it, of today’s education.
This overused word rele
vance makes my hair
stand on end, even more
than does squeaky chalk
on greenboards. What is
relevance? Relevant to
what or to whom? To the
students, to parents, to
society, or to job place
ment? To what we have
been; what we are; or
what we might be?
Attitudes and value
If we as a society con
sider a relevant education
as one designed only to
satisfy our immediate
needs, interests, and vo
cational preparation, then
something is seriously
wrong with our attitudes
because there are values
in education that tran
scend these needs.
With such thinking, then
it isn’t just the basketball
player or the so-called
"sweet young thing” who
does not need such “irrele
vant” subjects as history
or algebra. Perhaps we
should also consider the
teaching of writing and
maybe even higher-level
reading irrelevant in this
audiovisual age.
No skill, no subject, in
and of itself, is totally
relevant or irrelevant. We
must ask: what should
the end product of edu
cation be?
As an educator and par
ent, I think it is impor
tant to develop citizens
capable of making deci
sions and of learning now
and for a lifetime. And
you learn best how to
learn by practicing learn
ing.
In this world of “future
Patch-art:
new fun fad
Patches, patches every
where ... on jeans and
jackets, back-packs, name
it • . . they’re a kind of
citizen’s band communica
tion all their own. But
why slow it down with
sewing when you can
use glue instead?
There’s a special glue
that’s made to hold even
through trips to the wash
ing machine or dry clean
ers. It’s Elmer’s Fabric
Mender Cement and it’s
available in most variety
stores. Just look for the
card with the bright pink
tube.
You can even use it on
leather and suede . . . and
here’s a hint: now that
patch-art is so glue-easy,
why not invent your own?
Just cut out designs from
fabric scraps, and compose
them into your own per
sonal message!
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shock” when many of to
day’s jobs will go the way
of the blacksmith, being
able to continue learning,
growing, deciding and
changing are important.
But this isn’t what most
Americans think of when
they talk about relevance.
America has developed
the most comprehensive
commitment to mass edu
cation to free, open
education in history.
Its people
are among
the most
literate and
upwardly
mobile on
the globe.
But educa-
Md Ryo,
tion hasn’t brought about
Nirvana. It hasn’t deliver
ed total economic equality
and collective happiness.
Americans want easy
solutions to educational
problems as well as to
others. The message car
ried over from TV adver
tising and programming
is that problems can be
easily solved.
False triumphs
Justice is confounded
and vindicated, wars
threatened and averted,
and murders committed
and solved all in the space
of 30 to 60 minutes. This
time-compressing medium
reorients our attitudes to
ward problems and time
required for solution.
It has reshaped our ex
pectations so that when
real life fails to conform
to those expectations, we
react with frustration, an
ger, and despair. Our tol
erance for complex long
term solutions to social
problems has steadily de
clined. We seek triumph
through technology.
Asa matter of fact, we
cannot discuss education
‘Prime time 9 motivation
IT IS A FACT THAT MOST YOUNG PEOPLE today spend
more time watching TV than they do with their parents or
in schools. According to John Ryor, President of the Na
tional Education Association, “This reliance on TV also
makes it harder to teach. Students expect to be entertained
and never be bored by schooling.” Education, however,
cannot always promise the excitement of “prime time.” It
is the responsibility of all parents, teachers, and other
advisors to reevaluate the means we must use to moti
vate today’s youth academically.
without talking about the
impact of television, one
of the most pervasive
educators in contemporary
life.
Young people spend
more time with TV than
with their parents or in
schools.
Too many TV programs
have anything but a posi
tive influence on our youth.
They capitalize on the
sordid, the violent, and
just plain garbage.
This reliance on TV also
makes it harder to teach.
Students expect to be en
tertained and never be
bored by schooling. But
schooling often isn’t easy
or entertaining. And we
can’t package classroom
learning as “Sesame
Street.”
Furthermore, I suggest
that students cannot be
held blameless under
these circumstances while
schools take the blame for
educational erosion.
Study real problems
Any teacher can tell you
that a handful of disrup
tive or violent students in
a school disrupts the edu
cational process and leaves
a teacher with little ener
gy to do creative teaching.
Certainly education can
and should be as relevant
as possible to all parties
concerned. A big step for
ward could involve relat
ing subjects more to the
problems of society by
using real live problems
from pollution to con
sumer problems —and
building a core curriculum
around them in which
all subjects are used to
analyze the problem and
seek solutions.
Teachers would welcome
the time, resources, and
in-service opportunities to
get such programs off the
ground.
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W HAT IS THE RELEVANCE of today’s educational sys
tem? As John Ryor, President of the National Education
Association states, “If we as a society consider a relevant
education as one designed only to satisfy our immediate
needs, interests, and vocational preparation, then some
thing is seriously wrong with our attitudes because there
are values in education that transcend these needs.”
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Living easier
in dormitory
The dormitory is be
coming a popular choice
of living quarters with
students all over the coun
try, as opposed to a few
years ago when having an
apartment seemed to be
every college student’s
dream.
The housing director at
East Tennessee noted that
the security in numbers
provided by the dormito
ries and the presence of
the campus patrol appeal
to women students becom
ing concerned about safe
ty off-campus.
“Convenience, security,
and companionship are
some of the reasons that
students like to live in the
dormitory,” says an ofll
cial at Towson State Col
lege < Maryland).
Dormitories enable stu
dents “to avoid the hassle
of outside responsibilities,”
continued the official, "the
food shopping, cooking,
cleaning which can eat
into free time.”
More time to concen
trate on studies as com
petition for grades and
jobs increases may be a
factor.
Fannie B. Jones, Jackson
James Padgett, Jr., Jack
son
A1 Swanson, Jackson
Wayne D. Wallace, Jack
son
David L. Berry, Jenkins
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Mrs. A. E. Evett, Jackson
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