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? Believe it or
not, science has discovered
elemental trulhs about all of
us which hardly an of us
know. Learning them In
school would serve us hcllpr
than some of Ihe material
now taught.
Once a child has an Idra of
what makes him and his fel
low humans lick, he may find
beehives and ant hills even
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