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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 29, 1962)
SUNDAY, JULY Family Council Editor's tint: Thr Family Couiirll rnmltta of a Judae, a ptvrhlatrlit, i h r e rlerivmen, three edlle-ra and a women'a editor. Each arllrle li a aumniarv ol a family disagreement piesented to the Counrll. The Counrtl dealt with prohlemt, major and minor, encountered by aiilrianr.o roun selora and toclal workers, edited hv Mra. Alma Denny. (Copyright by General Featurea Corp.) Mrs. H. S. - He failed bi ology and he's supposed to make It up this summer, Hoger S. - Why In the world must I know all about the amoeba and the Parame cium? Mn. H. 8. - Roger is 14 and a good student. Eut we moved from another state in the middle of the term and he had a difficult adjustment to make. He claims he Just couldn't work up any inter est In the topics and the ex periments. Fortunately he was able to register for a summer course. If ha passes it, he'll be able to start the new term as a lull-flcgcd hiRh school sopho more. But already he's fall ing behind in his assignments and failing the weekly test. 1 can't understand his lack of interest. It's Mich an im portant subject. Perhaps the Council can discover why he has such an allergy to this particular study. Roger S. - I used to attend a private school and the things we learned in Science made some sense to me. We piantcd seeds and took cam eras apart and walchcd chem istry experiments. But this stuff I'm supposed to study now doesn't seem to have any connection with real life. Why must I know all about the habits of a parrmodum? Or a caterpillar and its lar vae? j I suppose I'll manage to pass the examlnalion this summer. My mother s wor ried because I failed a quiz . on definitions of jaw-break-! ers like Hellotropic and Dico- j tyledonous. But I'll just try J to memorize my notebook. At first I thought I'd remember a few things because they were interesting. But the teacher Just dictates the same ' old lessons. Why can't bioJo gy be about everyday things? The Council i We'ra with Roger. Of all subjects, biolo gy - which means the sci ence of life - ought to start i with knowledge about him self, his own life. That should hold his rapt attention. Time enough Inter to branch nut to dissect birds, probe the recrcts of plants, understand animal behavior. Some gifted biology teach ers are able to illuminate the eul-and-dried syllabus, so as to relate every law of nature, ! every revelation, to the child's day-by-day experience. I Evidently Roger has not heen fortunate enough tu have re-; ceived biology-plus-magic In the classroom. The old hack- neyed notes have been droned out and lie lifeless in Roger's looseleaf book. The curriculum - makers may some day get around to shifting the emphasis in bi-1 ology courses from simple i flora and fauna to that com plex specimen of fauna, the child himself. A prominent psychiatrist, Dr. Harvey J. Tompkins of SI. Vincent's hospital. New York City, re cently asked the State Asso ciation of School Adminis trators to introduce courses in understanding human be havior as an aid to ...cnul health. But meanwhile Rog er's teachers should rralize that they could make the ma terial, now so dull In him. (and most of it is "relalahle"! to his daily experiences and feelings. Children ran he very riiiel to each other. They will hound the odd hall, t.te one with a conspicuous name, nose, physique, ncccnl. But if, from an early age. they are aided to realize that class males have feelings" just like their own. and that cer tain drives and needs are universal, much childish an T iish can be averted, but more important, lessons of life long value will be learned. As part of biology, Roger might be finding answers to: What sort of a person am I" Why do I feel the way I do? Why do I act the way 1 do? Then, he'd move on to Why docs Johnny show off so much? How can I make things easier for Harry who just got a zero? 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