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Show r mtmwwnm nm wyKatneijp D3SERET NEWS, Magic Of Montessori: Made For U.S. Tots' '' il ' s ' s 't ' v x ' This Is th sixtt) of seven orticits by (Not education writer Maya Pines on th Importance of the revolutionary Montessori system in teaching young children. The series Is adapted bv permission from her book. REVOLUTION IN LEARNING published by Harper A Row.) x S&4S& By MAYA PINES ' 7 ', r , , & - ' .'&: 'w Ni- V 1 tnw , , s?t? ' '' ' x v. - $ v ' i ''v ! .V." ' -r ' ' ' There ts a fantastic difference between the behavior of European and American children in Montessori schools, according to Mrs. Thomas Hopkins, former director of the West Side Montessori " ' ' ' w ws School of New York. Being more disciplined at home, die European children are much quieter and have more fear of adults; they have been told what to do so often that they see the little rules rather than the big ones, and sometimes wont do anything at all until they know whether it is right. Therefore the Montessori teacher had to develop their independent. American children, on the other hand, d homes. As a come from result, they have plenty of independence, and much more vitality. Montessori is especially well adapted Mrs. Hopkins to American children, declares. You can give them big rules, and within these they can act go as fast or as slow as they wish. They have the initiative, and theyll go. But it wont be a quiet cassroom ! Ive had to change my attitude towards quiet, motion, and socialization. These children interact, so it wouldnt be natural it cant be quiet for them. We must be more liberal than the Europeans. When the children start school in the fall, they start with a very small group, and the room is quite empty, she explained Gradually, more equipment is brought out, and more children come in. After a few months, they know how to control the classroom. They know the limits, so theyre free. I returned to the school one year after my first visit. Its layout had changed somewhat because of a situation not schools an uncommon in parent-ru-n influx of younger siblings. It seemed that when all the children gathered together in a single room the big sibs drove the little sibs wild by trying to do everything for them, robbing them of their initiative. As one mother put It, the older ones made the little ones absolutely green. The little ones didnt really bother their big child-centere- Child learns color recognition by grading color tablets. This an uncommon instance of teeacher instructing directly. is Your Doctor He and dreds hun- of will be leagues attending the Utah Sta te Medical . I Association meeting Men, you can have an electrocardio- . annual at the Hotel Utah. Attending those scientific sessions will help to keep him current on medicines frantic dash to new techniques and treatments. i But journalists have a mortality rate that is double the average. Ulp. col- Health Bulletin says clergymen and scientists have higher life expectancy than many other professional groups. Their mean mortality rate is about 20 per cent below average. gram made at the Utah State Fair thij free. year The Utah Heart Association is sponsoring the electrocardiogram booth in the Industrial Arts Building at the Fair13-2- grounds Sept. Its a speedy process. A nurse merely attaches electrodes to you, and a machine records the electrical activity in your heart. The machine flashes its findings to computers at Latter-da- y Saints Hospital. The computers eye the electrocardiograms for abnormalities. If one is found, it is reported to the persons physician. We Lost '14th Colony' How by Harrison The 14th colony they had their eyes on was Quebec, the big English possession in Canada which by a recent act of Parliament had been extended south to the and west to the Mississippi. Canada seemed to be ready for the taking, most of the English troops there having been sent to Boston to quell the threatening infant American army. Two expeditions were dispatched, one northward through Maine to take Quebec City and the other toward Montreal. Benedict Arnold led the first and Richard Montgomery, a former British army officer, the other. The new commander-in-chie- f, George Washington, dug deeply into his meager munitions to outfit .he rxpeditions. Montgomery' took Montreal with ease but Arnold ran into difficulties, reaching Quebec after winter had set in, and after many hardships penetrating the wilderness between tht coast of Maine and the St Lawrence. He and Montgomery joined forces before the walled city, made several unsuccessful attacks but could not muster the strength to capture the city. ) Canadians, who had been expected to welcome the Americans, were lukewarm at first and eventually turned hostile. Quebec was well prepared for the siege and held out until spring when British ships with reinforcements arrived from England. Montgomery was killed during one of the attacks and Arnold was super-,- j seded. Both expeditions came to naught and the 14th colony remained British. The story is well told in this book. Merton T. Akers (UPI) 1 Caution: Dont think an electrocardiogram rules out all indication of heart disorders. Far from it. Its a valuable tool for doctors in diagnosing heart ills, but not the only one. It doesnt take the place of complete physical exams. The Utah Heart Association and the Latter-daSaints Hospitals Cardiovascular Laboratory may decide to do some further mass use of the electrocardiograph setup if the State Fair experiment proves fruitful. brothers or sisters. This was further complicated by the presence of some of the teachers' own children who clamored for special attention. As a temporary solution, the class was finally split into two groups of 22 children each, according to age, with one teacher and one assistant teacher per attention of the group, plus the part-timmale instructor. The ages were to be mixed again, though, in two classes the following year. The older group stuck longer with their chosen tasks. They received a great deal of individual attention. The teacher would spend as much as 10 minutes with a child if she felt there was something important to demonstrate. During such periods the child would talk to her in a very concentrated way, getting more practice in speech than he might get in many kindergartens that stress general conversation. At one time I saw Mrs. Hopkins deeply involved for a span of 20 minutes with three little hois, to whom she explained the operation of the bank game. She used sets of small golden beads, with which the children were already familiar, and showed them how, when they had gathered 10 single heads, they could on a shelf and exgo to the bank When they had change them for a a 10 they had one hundred perfect square, or one side of a cube. When they had 10 hundreds, they had one the whole cube. The boys thousand seemed fascinated by this revelation of the decimal system. A little girl was sitting alone and writing her own words and sentences on lined paper. Next to her stood a box full of small, colored paper shapes. Mrs. e A Salt Lake physician gave me a preview of an interesting TV spot that youll be seeing soon. The speaker on this spot is a man named William Talman. An actor. Youve seen him. He played Hamilton Burger on the Perry Mason TV Tomorrow: Mr. Talman tells about an agreement he made with his father as a teenager. His father promised young Bill a new car and $1,000 if h would wait until he was 21 before he started smoking. Mr. Talman related how he failed to win the car and the money. And now, he said, Im losing something else. The TV camera moves to his dog. Then it catches Mr. Talmans wife. Then his children. As I mentioned earlier, the spot was filmed several months ago. Mr. Talman died recently. Of lung cancer. Hluh-luw- As the cheetahs status in East Africa Firm Hold. A Sick Friend By JOSEPH G. MOLNER, M.D. Dear Dr. Molner: I would like your opinion, or rules, about visiting the sick. I have a friend who has terminal cancer and has let it be known that she does not want visitors. An even closer friend is convalescing from a stroke she suffered four months ago. I have visited her (she is still unable to talk). She became emotionally upset when I arrived and again when I left, so I wondered if my visit did more harm than good. What are the right w'ords to encourage these people? L.B. Answer: Here are the five rules which, over the years, I have found to be good answers to most of the questions. Ill list them, then take them up one at a time for discussion. 1 The first rule Is to respect the wishes. 2 Dont remind the patient of all the cases you have heard about people who suffered or died from the same illness. 3 Dont visit too long. 4 Dont express your concern or worry about the patient by your remarks or other expressions. The look on your face sometimes can undo everything patients cant be helpful or cheerful, (Too often visits are motivated by sheer curiosity rather than benevolence.) FIRST RULE: If the patient doesnt want visitors, dont visit He may be embarrassed by his appearance or his inability to communicate. He may be drowsy from medication. He may be just tired. I myself have experienced being so weary and sedated that I could hastily keep awake. I heartily wished my visitors would go but I couldnt bring myself to tell them so. Maybe I should have, but you know how it is. Perhaps we need some social signals. A patient should be provided with some instructions: for example, he could be warned to say, Oh. Im getting so sleepy; it must be that medication, when he wants people to leave. But the trouble is that a very sick patient is in no mood to learn even Noel Simon, founder of the Kenya Wild Life Society, says he believes the decline cannot be due just to poaching the existence of a fatal and hunting disease is suspected. The cheetah also has taken root in Zululand where it was extinct for generae tions. A few were introduced o the Corridor - Urnfolozi Game Reserve Complex in 1966 and they also appear to be increasing. A 5 If you 1,000 and still falling rapidly. crease. Tek dont visit In East Africa, until recently considered thp last stronghold of the cheetah, tiie animals numbers are down below of it picking up. In spite of unfavorable conditions for this specialized hunter in the park, the cheetah population is now at 240. In the north of the park, where for years it has been on the brink of oblivion, it is showing signs of increasing. There have never been more than 40 in the north and many considered this number too small to hold out hope for an in- Root else. It is extinct in India where it is believed to have evolved and where it was Hindu for Chita, originally named speckled. It has virtually disappeared from all its haunts throughout Asia Minor. The Russians may be preserving the last handful in Turkmenistan, east of the Caspian Sea. He believes in Kenya the animal may have reached the point of no return. In Central Africa the situation is no brighter. The cheetah has declined alarmingly over the last few years. The one ray of hope to come recently was contained in the annual report of South Africa's National Parks Board. After years of gloomy reports as Kruger Parks cheetah population dropped to a desperately low 100, there are now signs Transplanted How To Visit Mr. Talman walked into the American Cancer Society several months ago and offered to make the TV spot. The ACS confirmed that itll be broadcast shortly. Lanky Cat ' Fast Disappearing Fatal Disease Suspected JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA The cheetah, one of the most romantic of the worlds big game animals, is now nearer to extinction than it has ever been. joined YOUR HEALTH y By JAMES CLARKE Copley News Service In 1775 American patriots, making the final break with Great Britain, hoped to add a 14th colony and make the revolution unanimous among the English possessions in North America. Ohio River be a quiet classroom!" Cheetah Doomed To Extinction? BOOKS ATTACK ON QUEBEC, Bird (Oxford $6.50): they'll go. But it won't shows. Burger was the district attorney who inevitably lost in court every week to the brilliant Mason. THE MEDICAL PULSE more difficulty than usual doctor this week, theres a have the initiative, and Goes To School ' This Week By STEVE HALE Deseret News Medical Writer If you have in seeing your good reason. her for a while and explained how these could be us"d to color-cod- e each part of a sentence: The shiny red circles should be pasted under the verbs, she said: the small black triangles represented adjectives; the large blue triangles represented nouns. The little girl had written, I can run fast. As Mrs. Hopkins watched, the child pasted a red rircle under the word run. Then she began to write other verbs, so as to paste more circles: skip, hop, jump, clap. Next she wrote yellow and carefully pasted a small triangle. It looked as if she would never stop Some of the children can add and subtract even at the age nf 4, aid Mrs Hopkins. They can do it as soon as they learn and understand the numbers 1 to 10, since we show' them different ways of making up these numbers. It all depends on the childs interest. In this group, they seem more interested in numbers work than in letters. Its more materialized, more physical and encouraging. They cant just pick up a book and read, so thats more frustrating, especially if they have been pushed too much at home. I think the parents push letters more than math, so were more successful with numbers! Just as sad as the pushing parents, she added, were those who said, We dont teach our children anything at home we dont believe in it. Both showed a misunderstanding of what was important. The school does try to explain to parents whats going to happen here, she pointed out. Some of the children will read, some w'ont. It isnt what theyve learned as such that counts; its the ability to learn. This is the hardest thing to get across, because the newspapers have generally given the impression that knowledge and reading skills are everything. The childrens occupations are never the same from day to day. It goes in commented Mrs. Hopkins. One waves, week they like bank games best, another week its sensorial work, such as wet games. Some observers were absolutely horrified one day to find the children spending most of their time washing the floor with mops, and one woman exclaimed, My goodness, dont they ever do anything else? Hopkins "American children Monday, The graceful cheetah may have reached the point of no return. slowly ebbs away, the worlds wildlife conservationists are looking at South Africa as possibly the worlds last stronghold of cheetahs, just as it was the last stronghold of white rhino. It remains to be seen whether South Africa can do for the cheetah what it did for the white rhino: rescue it from the brink of extinction and then redistribute the surplus to other parts of Africa where it had died out. A measure of the rapidity with which the cheetah has declined in East Africa is seen from the fact that in 1905 an estimated 5,'i00 hunted the savannah of Somaliland. Today there is probably only a fifth of that number in the whole of East Africa. Nairobi National Park has only two. In South Africa's Lowveld region the cheetah has never been common toric times and there is a advanced by Desmond Varaday, of two books on cheetahs (Gara in histheory, author Yaka and Gara Yakas Domain), that this is because lions harry it and often rob it of its prey. Lions have been known to prey upon cheetahs, too. The truth is that the cheetah is easy to kill, being a craven coward. Because of its retiring, timid nature there is absolutely no excuse for hunting it. e The cheetah with its enormous back legs, small head and distinctive spots, has never been a menace to dog-lik- man or his stock. It would be ironic if this lanky cat which evolved In the Orient and spread halfway across the globe finds its last sanctuary in the most southerly point it ever reached. September 9, 1963 OUR MAH JOHES Let's Get It Straight On Butch! Bv HARRY JONES The Century Fox people aie shooting a western movie down in the colorful St. George country. 19ih The full length color cinema is to be Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid. called And you cant believe just how far behind the times they are in a history of Butch! at least the They dont even realize that Butch is a publicity boys dont native son of our beautiful state. They happened to select St. George r.o quarbecause of the scenic beauty rel there! A press release announcing effects special team had that a arrived in St. George to begin construction said in part: Some of Butch antics Cassidys were also reported have taken to place in the southern part of Utah where most of the Mr. Jones film will be shot. Also reported . . . my foot! Thats like saying that Christopher Columbus spent some time at sea! Butch is one of my favorite western and Utah characters. He had a few bad points, but as far as I am concerned, stole to help Butch was a Robin Hood the poor. I dont expect the historians of our state to place a bust of Butch in Statuary Hall in Washington, even though there is a space for one. either. 20th Century seems to be going off the very deep end publicity-wise- . Paul Newman is to play Butch. Mr. Newman is one of my favorite people and well chosen. So is Robert Redford who will play the part of the Sun Dance Kid. Bob is one of the prime factors in the enlargement of Timp Haven down Provo Way. The movie people bill him as a Utahn. But as much as we would like to claim him, Bob is from Colorado! Now if the 20th Century people can be that wrong with live and breathing stars, how wrong do you think they can get on e westerner? a film of an Another of my favorite people is a spry little lady in Circleville not too far from St. George. Her nrme is Lula Betensen. And she is as concerned over the movie bit as I am . . . more so, in fact And let me tell you why. Lula is the youngest of a large family the Parker family. Butchs real name was Parker. And Lula Is Butchs youngest sister. She knows more about Butch than any other person on this old green earth. She knows how Butch died, where he died and his burial place. And it isnt as the movie will portray it if handsome Mr. Newman gets done in at the end. It wasnt in South America where Butch got it, as a lot of historians claim. My favorite Circleville gal friend wrote to 20th Century when she heard about the movie. She hoped they would paint her brother Butch in a true light But her letter apparently went into the wastebasket. At least the publicity department didn't get it! . -- old-tim- f - , . Wit's End: The trouble with most politicians is that they take themselves so seriously! Ulillllllllllllllllllllliiiililllllllilllllillllllllillllllllllilllllllllllllllllllll BIG TALK s' ' ' s V? such simple ploys of And if I may be allowed a personal gripe, some years ago when I was desperately ill my room had the No Visitors sign posted. Yet I knew so many people (naturally) in the hospital that I had a procession of doctors and nurses and other people popping in, despite the sign. I was exhausted. A sick doctor isnt a doctor: hes a patient. I hope my professional friends will take this to heart. SECOND RULE: Dont talk about other patients who have had the same ailment unless you can be genuinely encouraging. Dont tell how others suffered. Dont tell how others died. Dont lie to the patient because it wont work. He has learned all he can of his ailment be sure of that. If he has been on the no visitors list, but now can have visitors, its certainly all right to admit that he was very seriously ill and is now better. But dont yap about others who have improved and then had relapses. Or things like that. Believe, me, conversation about fatal cases, or otherwise disastrous ones, is all too common. Why? Dont ask me. But It happens, and it certainly plays hob with the patients spirit. Ill continue this tomorrow. 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