The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-03-29

fifteenth annual convention of schoo
administrators which told how Mon
tana was meeting the needs of the
time in the field of education.
Although most of Montana politics
is based upon how to avoid paying
the costs of training our young ii
really gets to be rather tiresome try
ing to understand people who won't,
for various reasons, give full sup
port to our school administrators.
1t really doesn't matter what the
cost is, it must be met by every means
possible TO support the only real rea-
son we have government in the first
place-to create an able citizen.
How we are creating able citizens
was the topic of a panel on pilot
programs in the state.
Walter Johnson, Phillipsburg sci
ence instructor, explained the amaz-
ing depth that even a class &C" school
can get with limited number of stu
dents in varying age groups. The
old work book has been dispensed
with. 1t has been replaced with book
reports, term papers based upon a
reading program covering the subject
of the individual work project. Four
years are sometimes spent by a stu
dent on the same project. Projects
are of diverse nature such as studies
of the thyroid gland of the mouse,
ion exchanges, cactus growth, repro
duction systems, trout skeletons or
the effects of rotary motion on plants
or mice. When project is selected
the student carries it as far as he can. /
The class work is supported by the |
Tuesday Lunch Club which shows |
movies, has a speaker from the Forest |
Service, goes on a field trip, etc.
There are no dues to the club but
everyone must bring his own lunch.
The community joins in with the
class in the annual Science Fair and
the magazine Science and the
World continues the heavy emphasis
placed upon science in modern edu-
cation in Montana.
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eminent and economics instructor,
gives course in comparative gov
ernments which studies communism
rather than hide it under the rug.
While some would teach hatred of
communism this approach is poor be-
cause hate is based upon fear which
leads only to defeatism.
Radakovich maintains that Karl |
Marx based his conclusions upon
i'll, 1 .
Britain during the industrial revolu-
ton but that he could not arrive at
these conclusions today. j
First Lenin, then Stain, and now
have made corrections t
on Marks original thesis until the 1
glaring contradictions are now ap- i
parent.
Radakovich believes the democra- j
cies place their appeal in the per- r
suasion of justice and mercy rather il
than the coercion espoused by COM
Because the student doesn't i
know enough about any kind of gov o
Radakovich reviews the b
chief federal systems of the world v
20 demonstrate that today the strug %
gle is between systems of open and r
rec inquiry versus those of blind il
md unthinking hatred. Communism r
S a throwback to an earlier age. t.
Radakovich holds with President t
kennedy's statement that ,"Nations J
ire not great for what they are
Igainst but what they stand for"
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Francis L. Savage. superintendent IN
f the Lewistown schools, explained e
low team teaching and class organi- tf
alton is helping his staff lick the te
froblem of increased enrolment with II
ut additional class space. u
The team teaching idea was bor- al
owed from the high schools to be az
ppied at the sixth grade level. A m
lassroom to hold the 90-student 1e
lass was equipped with microphones az
nd movie projecting equipment. Not
eing an experiment but an unfamil- n
ar procedure for parents, the radio
nd newspaper explained that while
alf of the sixth graders would re- III