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Show Page 14—T.IE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah Tuesday, March 24, 1970 Nixon Wants Congress to Set Up a ae Agency for Education Research For the high school level, Goodman would have the governmentfinance on-the-job training for young people rather than formal schooling. . WASHINGTON (UPI) —Pres- These proposals arouse¢ al reforms to accommodate ident Nixon wants Congress to More curiosity support new discoveries.” set up a national institution for when they were presented over But which way reform? a period of the past six months Author Paul Goodman imentation.” It's a lively to a House subcommittee on (“Growing Up Absurd”) told subject with no dearth of ideas education headed by Rep the House subcommittee that, “in my opinion, most hig! put Roman C. Pucinski, D- Ill. schools should simply be The hearings, still underway abolished. are billed as “a look at the “My argumentis that the j educational needs of the °70's.” only way you learn to live in So far, they have concentrated the world is to live in the on the effectiveness of grade world, the way you learn to and high schools in America swim. The point of elementary and what can be done to attendance laws. education is to see that they Give federal aid directly to improve them. have grown up a little bit so parents in the form of vouchers This would be one objective that they can be thrown into to be used at the school of the of the National Institute of the water,” Goodman said. parent’s choice, public or Education, which Nixon pro- “The need for schooiing is a to Congress in his hoax which has been seld by private. A return to the one-room education message March 3. It educational imperialists.” school concept for elementary would serve, Nixon said, “as a The Goodman theory, which focus for educational research he has tested with a Harler grades. Abolish school grades and and experimentation in the store front school, calls for tests and permit students to United States.” returning to “a Little Red choose their own method and “The decade of the 1970's,” School House in the urban Nixonsaid, “calls for...structur- setting.” speed of learning. Goodman's minischool, which he operated for two-and-a-half years, took 25 youngsters up to Major Gen. Samuel Koster, who was implicated in the My WEST POINT'S new superintendent Major General William Lai incidents in Vietnam, (Herald-UPI Telephoto). Knowlton, third from left, salutes the flag while reviewing the honor guardbeforetaking over his new post. He succeeds Soviet and American Negotiators Will Begin SALT Talks April 16 By RICHARD C. LONGWORTH VIENNA (UPI)—Theironies and lessons of history will be lurking in the shadows when Soviet and American negotialors open the strategic arms limitation (SALT) talks here April 16. Fer one thing, the talks will open almost 25 years to the day since Soviet troops liberated Austria from the Nazis—and began 10 years of occupatioi stili remembered vividly | every Austrian. Moscow has revived those memories by housing its SALT delegation in a hotel in Baden, a resort south of Vienna where its occupation headquaters were located. The ironies are hardly less poignant for the Bennett Lends Support To Carswell Nomination WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, R-Utah has thrown his support behind the nomination of G. Harold Carswell as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. The Utah Republican said his down April 16 to discuss The Strudlhof, which was about July 10, then take a support of Carswell was based whether and how to curb chosen for its proximity to the summer break and resume in “on the ursent need to restore a balance to the highest court weapons of destructive power embassy, is owned now by the autumnin Helsinki. undreamed of in Count Berch- Bawag, the Austrian trade union bank, and is used by the told’s day. Vienna also can provide good intellectual Club of the Austrian Socialist Party. omens for the talks. The major condition set by The Congress of Vienna, in 1814-15, established a European the Russians wasthat their order after the Napoleonic wars hotel should have a Turkish that preserved the continent’s bath and that they have the peace for a half century. hotel to themselves. They Exactly 140 years later, the finally found it in Baden, about ‘Muited States and Russia signed 15 miles from Vienna. the Austrian State Treaty of 1955 that ended the four-power occupation here—to the continuing amazementof the Austrians —andestablished Austrian independence, The i5th anniversary of the document will be American celebrated May 15, while the Schrag said he would not go as far as Goodman and abolish parents in the form of vouchers to send tneir children to storefront schools such as Goodman conducted or to private schools, Author John Holt proposed abolishing compulsory attendance iaws, grading, tests, diplomas and set curriculum in grade and high schools. Holt, who wrote “How Children Fail,” told the sub- the age of 13 and employed one committee many children fail licensed teacher, a high scool because “our system of public dropout, a mother of one of education is a horrendous,lifethe students, and a newly destroying mess.” “I think it is the best graduated college student. There were no formal grades students who are perhaps the or classes. “The natural life for most deeply disillusioned and children from to 13 is to learn angry. This is what is by playing, according to their surprising many people. It is own motives and the best the the childre' who play the teacher can do is to try to school game best who are facilitate what they are doing. saying more and more this is They grow into the reality not a game worth playing. I' they are going to anyway because that is all think t i refuse to playit.” there is.” The American delegation in Helsinki claimed it was craraped in the small embassy there. The U.S. embassy here is larger—butso is the delegation, which has swollen from 35 to about 70 persons. Hence the decision to expand into the Strudlhof. Continuing Until July The talks here are expected to last three months, until J PLUMBING PLANNING AND REMODELING CRAGHEAD| PLUMBING—HEATING PROVO DIAL 373-1003 56 North 2nd West se] s SALT talks are still going on. team. The United States has chosen Delegations List Prerequisites as its headquarters the Strud- Preparations for the talks are lhof Palais, a yellow and white going forward. The Soviet and stuccopalace around the corner American embassies will be the from the American embassy, It scene of the talks—as they wasin this palace that its then werefor the preliminary SALT resident, Austro-Hungarian negotiations in Helsinki—and Foreign Minister Count Leopold security officials from both Berchtold, signed the ultima- sides have been here to check tym to Serbia that started arrangements. Interior ministry sources said World War I. both sides presented a “long Good Omens, Too list of detailed requests” on That war led both America’s emergence as a protection of the two embasworld power and to the sies, to preserve secrecy for Bolshevik revolution in Russia. the talks. In addition, he said, The end result of those two the Americans have laid down seminal events of the 20th strict instructions — including century will top the agenda the distance desks must be when America and Russia sit from walls—to prevent tanping in the land and to put men on it whose records indicate they interpret — not revise -- the constitution they are sworn to uphold.” Bennett said his mail from Utah “is running in favor of Judge Carswell, and it is my feeling that most Utahns support the ination.” u TOW TRUCK- ASIAN STYLE The “TRAILER ‘ROUND THE WORLD" color film which will be presented Friday, March 27, is a hair-raising tale. 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