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Show A3 DESERET NEWS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1973 ducation is where you find ...in DO-I- T man in empty 3 stores or State opinion says warehouses its finders keepers offices, . . . OUR READERS' ACTION LINE learning on the job Dill 364 86260' wnte to Do-l- t - By Kenneth G. Gehret Christian Science Monitor News Service Pa. PHILADELPHIA, Kevin Smith is VUUVUUUU uild year and will get his diploma from the Philadelphia Board o. Education next June. But he wont spend a single day in a city school building to qualify. Instead, he will attend classes in such places as the Franklin Institute, the local telephone office, and commercial offices and shops around town. VUk IVUUUlllg : IU6 lUM at OV.IIWI vinyl mi J t uuuvc, classrooms at taVerne College in California. Empty markets, geodesic domes are other ideas. Conclusion of a three-pa- rt serEs. Below, an architect uses his studio as a classroom for students in the Parkway Project. new freshman class. Selection was by lottery. Once admitted, Kevin was assured of enrollment each year to graduation. He is finishing in three years instead of the usual four by opting for a heavier course load all along the way. Begun in 1969 with liberal funding from the Ford Foundation, Parkway Project was the original school that operated completely in the community. Since then, Chicago, Washington, Hartford, Conn., and other cities have organized schools on a similar basis. Oct. 22, the cellist, Pablo Casals, died. In the following article, first released in 1966, the famed musician, who until his death made his home in On Monday, Santnrce, Pnerto Rico, outlines his philosophy of life. By Pablo Casals North American Newspaper Alliance When SANTURCE, P.R. one looks about him at the miraculous diversity of our uniat the miraculous verse world that each person, each how can tree, each leaf is one help but believe in something greater than oneself, something that cannot be described? - if you develop an awareness of what you are, gradually you will find God. I find Him when I awake. I go immediately to the sea ar.d everywhere I see God, in the and the largest smallest things. I see Him in colors and designs and forms. I think have the idea of God I find Him m constantly. music. What is this world, what is music but God? I Here in Puerto Rico each morning after I return from the seashore, I have breakfast and immediately afterward I go to the piano and I play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I have done that every day of my life for the last 79 years. to learn to play the I knew at 10 four. at piano that Bach existed and immediately I began to play the preludes and fugues every morning without fail, except when I was on a train or a ship and there was no piano I began to play. I see God in Bach. Every morning of my life, I see nature first, then I see Bach. I treat music as something as I treat every human being. Every human being is a miracle. The world is a mir New construction of a building of comparable space would have cost four times as much, a New York school official reports. And it would have taken a year or two before stuin dents coull have been accommodated, contrast to six months from the start of planning on the printing plant conversion. The building is not owned by the school system. It has been leased on favorable terms. This had advantages for the school district. It means that capital funds are not tied up and the district is free to move the school to other quarters as needs change. 3 problems; 3 solutions is more than savings, in the responsible for and Sun plant We have to recognize that the high school function has changed, and with it the physical plant needs. We dont need the class and the classroom anymore, says the New York Board of Educations administrator for school planning and research. ministrators time in planning, and furnishings worth about $1.5 million. Certificated teachers handle the core of academic instruction at community sites, includ- This is the initial outlay. Continuing charges consist of routine maintenance, repairs, and financing or interest paymetits. required subjects. At the Philadelphia Museum of Art, classes vary from 4 to 15 students. Staff lecturers present basically the same talks they give to ing A key factor in the Parkways budget balancing is the use of volunteer instructors. The no received chiMrens shop operator compensation for the time she spent with Kevin Smith and two other students, on an individual basis, last year. groups of museum visitors. And at the Philadelphia Gas Works, classes average a d, zen or so in the electricity, gas appliance servicing, and homemaking courses developed and conducted by company person- Hundreds of business people, corporate executives, college students, and other talented individuals also helped out as instructors, and are doing so again this year. Fitting some 250 courses together in terms of individual schedules is a difficult challenge. Getting to the learning sites can be difficult, nel. too. Casals found God everywhere world-renowne- d The first part of July my husband found some money on the University Hospital groands. He turned it In te the campas police and was void inai nci, three mostly it. Now passed. If no one claimed it, he would get to Keep to the over the turn to have told money been has he they Using nonschool facilities make do," more than dollar eyes of August Gold, the man utilizing the World Telegram and similar conversions. Parkway is providing opportunities to learn about the real world in a way seldom available to students in traditional schools. Kevins schedule of last year indicates the breadth of. options in the program. Among other things, he learned guitar fingerboard technique and repair from a professional, took a course in electricity at the gas company, tutored students at the Pickett Middle School in basic skills such as reading, and spent much time in a childrens shop, learning the fundamentals of retailing. Kevin found the shop experience a big He is thinking of opening a sporting help. goods store sometime. But college too is very much on his mind, and he expects to follow a curriculum when he enters a univerpre-lasity next fall. Whatever the educational advantages of Parkway, the dollar benefits stand out as paramount to some observers. Dr. Robert C. Hutchins, project director, poii.is to total savings on building construction and maintenance that runs into the millions. Although Dr. Hutchins declines to guess at the precise savings realized, an expert on school costs estimates construction alone for 840 students at $6 million, exclusive of land purchase. To this he adds architects fees, ad- - NEW YORK. N.Y. A railroad station in Hartford funn a howling alley in Boston, the New York Telegram and Sun printing plant in Brooklyn, and a warehouse in Philadelphia. u'h?.! do thpv hava in rommon' No I on per needed for their original purpose, all now are in use as public schools. And all saved the taxpayers considerable sums, whether leased or purchased. The Brooklyn news plant now houses 700 lagh school students after tving to safety-cod- e standards, up brought refurbished, carpeted, and furnished for less than $1 million. five-stor- y Kevin is enrolled in the Parkway Project, Philadelphias high school without walls, and considers himself fortunate to be numoered student body. among the The odds seemed against him three years ago when 10,000 city school students applied for the few hundred places available in the acle that make. only God others. To resist doing things that have no meaning for life. could Some time ago, I gave an at the Manhattan School of Music. Two thousand music students came to hear me, many from other schools. I said to them, cs I say to all my fellow men and v.omen: Think how no two grains of sand are alike. How there is not one voice like another, not one nose like another how in the millions and billions of livthings in ing and the universe, no two are exactly alike. Who but God could do that? God cannot die. God must be present all the time. Nothing can destroy address non-livin- g that. I cant philosopher believe in Claude Do not waste life and love in things you do not feel. Do what you feel and listen to your conscience. If you do that, you will do right for the world and for yourselves. The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made to inform ordinary clear, activities with spiritual fervor, to give winds of eternity to what which is more ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things such is Each, the greatest and purest moment in the music of all time. what Levi-Strau- says: That the human race will one day vanish like every other form of life. I cant conceive it, it is an unthinkable thought. There was a fisherman I knew in San Salvador many years ago. He could not read or write. I learned more from that man than from the philisopher Henri Bergson, because he lived with nature because he had himself; learned directly from nature and life. have never believed ui great names. I believe in what happens in the whole of life. This is the teacher. This is the conductor. Life is the philosophy to read and adopt. Nature is where I go, without anybody's help but Gods. Nature is what has inspired me, what I have learned from and what has been the cause and content of my meditation. Nature has I helped me, not the philosophies of the study. Let me say something on the subject of a mans place in life. It is something necessary to make the humblest people who do the humblest work understand that their work, if done well, is equally necessary for humanity. Not everybody has a special talent, the means of thnugnt and imagination to do whet is thought an important thing. Those who do the strenuous and less rewarding jobs of life, those who are physically wearied by their work, if they take pride in their work and are conscientious, ate as necessary, perhaps more so, than those who, because of some special talent or gift, are thought of as doing superior work. Such workers are entitled to the reward of retirement; but they can always find joy in doing whatever they can to lift their spirit and feel that they are useful. To retire is to begin to die. You ask what my legacy to the world is. It is always the same: The lesson on never underestimating bfe; of never losing touch with it. To respect and love life m every sense, one's own and that of Yes, Bach is the supreme gemus of music. I have reached this conclusion, so easy to state, and of such enormous significance. This .ir.an, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however, unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every nobel thought, and has done it in the most perfect way. There are times when I feel like a boy. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young. And there is so much to admire and to love look at the sky, the trees and flowers. A single tree what a miracle it is! What a fantastic, wonderful, diverse creation this world is! That is the law of nature diversity. That is why I can never play the same work exactly the same way twice, why each note, even, is a different world - Man. PO Box 1257. Salt lakeCity. Utah Whatever the bonuses, economics are basic. Gold estimates that these facilities can be acquired and refurbished for between 35 and 40 percent of new school structures. New York also is ui the midst of combining school facilities with commercial or residential space to supply the city with 23 new r schools over a span. Construction of education space alone comes to $140 million. Dut these facilities cost the district not one dollar in capital funds. Costs are borne entirely by rentals from the remainder of each structure. five-yea- Another thrust in New York City is the opening of elementary classrooms in apartment houses. Golds office has a working relationship with some apartment builders, who check on the need for school facilities when they plan new buildings. This gives the board of education the option of renting space for children in the immediate neighborhood, where space might not otherwise be available at any price. Ideas for cutting the local tax bill on building costs are not restricted to New York nor to metropolitan areas. Pontiac, Mich., developed a novel plan that has a angle all its own, combining other community activities with elementary schooling. This qualified the project for $1.2 million in federal funds. The Human Resources Center there offers 176,000 square feet of space on several levels. civic complex. Besides It is part of an an elementary school and nursery, the center houses a community college extension, areas, a medical and dental clinic, welfare and legal aid services, and placement assistance, a theater, a gymnasium and dance hall, and community meeting rooms. n adult-educati- Still another new concept is employed on a branch campus of Antioch College at Columbia, Md. This is a plastic bubble that contains classrooms, offices, and other areas used by the 75 students and small staff. Completed last spring, the vinyl bubble is supported entirely by air pressure. It is divided into nine areas and offers considerable flexibility in usage, in addition to its cost advantages. Students erected the lightweight structure and expect to remove it by the end of its life expectancy, which is five years, without peril . inent damage to the site. Built in four days, the enclosure cost $5.50 per square foot, in contrast to $20 to $40 per square foot for permanent building locally. This type of construction is claimed by its backers to be applicable to public school needs. It can be used as readily by schools as by colleges, they say, for laboratories, auditoriums, and gymnasiums as well as for covers over outdoor playing fields, tennis courts, and swimming pools. cold-weath-er In a special t senes beginning Monday on this page, Save on Taxes NOW, financial expert Sylvia Porter will demonstrate how you can shift your yearly income, time your contnbutions, take advantage of year-engifts and use income averaging to cut your taxes. five-par- d nes starting Monday in the Deseret News. Howling coyotes removed The other day when we got up, there was a terrible noise in our neighborhood that persisted all day. Finally my husband and I drove around and found a yard with a enclosure that housed some coyotes or large fenced-iwolves who howled constantly. Friday I called the animal control. They investigated and said the animals would be removed. They are still there. I dont think we can endure it much longer. A.N., Salt Lake City. The county animal control answered our inquiry alcall-tthough their investigation was triggered by your phone them rather than our letter. The coyotes (not wolves have been removed in accordance with the county zoning ordinance that statps it is unlawful to keep pets that arei inherently or potentially dangerous animals, fowls, orj reptiles. n o OUR MAN JOCIGS rt r ..I I didnt realize what a diversified world we are living in unti) the other' morning. A note from our milkmabt stated that we could also order lightj ; bulbs from him. . He also sells eggs. It just had to;; happen. Im halfway downtown before getting fully awake; The morning we ordered both eggs and bulbs, I goofed! The eggs were stored in the basement, and the bulbs puC J.-in the refrigerator. It was noticed when Donna asked me if I wanted my; bulbs scrambled or over easy. Jj When I mentioned it to the milkman the day he cam for a reckoning, he said he was expanding into panty-hos-he delivers the kind that come in those I; containers, Ill be really sunk. If d He was a bit upset that our bill was down. ; How come you didnt use as much milk this month?'; he asked, is someone out of town, or the kids gone baefc: to school? j: I told him that I had bought a few s of mill, from the gasoline station where we buy gas for the family', , : bucket of bolts. It was so handy, I said apologetically. ; dont sell oil. I don't think tbejf Gee, he said. should sell milk. I . ; I told him they sold bread too. 1 dont buy my oil from them. It is a bit cheaper at: the supermaiket. Its on the shelf just between the canned, vegetables and the paper products, I told him. He said that he would buy his oil there in the future.: ' My truck is beginning to use oil a bit, he said. The next time I saw him, be was driving a sparkling new van. It was a beauty, but it wasnt the kind that you can pull on the front and make the cab bigger like the one on theT tube. How come you bough a new truck? I asked. youre not gomg to raise the price of your milk for it. 1; hope he said. ; Takes a lot of work to produce Yes, but on the cows part. The cow doesnt have a i new truck. By acting now during the remaining months of this year you can substantially minimize your 1973 income tax bill. After Dec. 31 it will be too late to do anything but file your return. mmiey-nvin- The Capitol Record Hub in New Rochelle, N.Y., owes me some records. Can you get them? We cant even Mrs. H.F. Salt Lake City. though weve tried. You were erroneously charged for the Mrs. D.M. albums you never ordered. You have now received a credA replacement shipment of records is on it. Mrs. H.F. its way. J.S.G. Theyve offered you an option since their stock of phonographs has been exhausted. They'll credit you with the total cost ot the machine and you will then get a free album for every one you buy. You'll have to let em know if you dont like this. If you dont theyU close your account and refund your payment. a gallon of milk! Save on taxes by acting NOW this exclusive 1 have written three times to Capitol Stereo Tape Club in New Rochelle, N.Y., about two tapes. I sent them bach but still get bilis. And the bills are of different amounts. Mrs. D.M., Pocatello. I ordered a stereo for $31) from Capitol Record Club in New Rochelle, N.Y. The stereo came but, was broken. I reported to them and they said to box It up and return. Ive never heard another word. J.S.G., Orem. Cant promise, (C) 1973, Christian Science Publishing Society Don i miss The ordinances quoted to you had to do with city regulations. The hospital is state property and state laws are in force. Apparently, there are some gray areas as to applyThe attorney ing the law in respect to University property. and it has been an for asked was office opinion generals in your favor. All you have lo do is have your given husband go to the campus security office, sign a release and the money is all yours (his). se- Eggs might go up too, he said, brushing aside my comment. It takes a chicken a whole day to produce an :: egg. He had taken a picture of the old truck with some film he bought at the car wasn. The camera was from th? bank where he saved his money. He ran the picture with the ad, and sold it overnight. He had new shoes too. He had bought them at th market while looking for the oil. My shoes had been bought at the drugstore. I was looking near the fountain for the drug department at the time. Od at the store, bread at the service station, hose from the milkman, blannets and dishes from your bank, there Is no end to diversification. Any of you cats want to bay some Christmas cards? BITS END: Howard Pearson said there was a party thrown out on the sidewalk in front of the Hotel Utah the ' other night. He knows, because he was the party! J- |