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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand April 8, 1976 The Utah Independent Page 5 themselves. This approach in the new social studies is called INQUIRY. The teaching of content is out, use of outside source data and class consensus on the problems of the world are IN. NEA Journal has stated, The student must view knowledge in MARILYN MANION tentative terms rather than absolute, and knowledge is subject to continuous revision. All issues studied must concern the students personal problems or current social problems. (Does this and data collectests the portend ting for PPBS? Ed.) No one is viewed as an authority of ANY subject the student reads what he will, and then makes up his own mind, in the critical light of his peers. This from NEA! The Energy Picture Today When the lights go out, as they did at my house during there is much less natural gas than we need today. While the domestic use of coal is limited by too-stridean-ai- r rules, at the same iime the export of coal to Germany and Japan is being promoted by our government, with the result that the Eastern U.S. reserves are being used for foreign consumers. Coal production in the United States is much lower today than it was 30 years ago. Yet, its necessary for us to triple the amount of recent a thunderstorm, one tends to stop and think about ones dependence ct upon electricity. Most of us had a similar reaction during the gas shortage a few years ago. Who could forget lining up at five a.m. for a long, cold ? wait for a Well, most fill-up- of us have Merrily forgotten. we roll along the ' highways. How long will we roll along? A recent guest on the Manion Forum radio coal we use by 1990. This country was the pioneer in the development of nuclear power. Yet today we require up to 10 years to build a nuclear power plant in the United States, while program gave his audience plenty of food for thought on this subject and some of it is not very comforting. Dr. John J. McKetta is Professor of Chemical - Engineering at the takes only 4 ' years in Europe and Japan. Why? Again, because of excessive governmental regulations. Our National Energy-Policshould include many items. Let me name a few: it University of Texas. Here is what he told his radio listeners: Many Americans have been led to believe we will have energy by 1985. I predict that at the current rate of energy demand growth there will be an energy shortage in the United States by 1985 that will make your hair curl. Most of this is because of the and our of lethargy Congress in energy matters. Our energy supply is in trouble. We cannot meet the fantastic energy demands through the year 2000 without yearly increasing the energy imported from outside our borders. Today about 40 percent of oil used in the U.S.A. is imported. None of the legislation that the Congress has passed has helped to improve our domestic energy situation. In fact, many of the new regulations have decreased the supply of domestic energy. Higher taxes, price controls, threat of excess profit penalties, embargoes on leasing or operating in favorable coastal areas, and . self-sufficien-cy - short-sightedne- rigid ss domestic of supplies so that items, many Encouraging U.S. businessmen to find new energies, especially more oil and more gas. We must triple the use of coal by 1990. Use nuclear energy widely. Encourage research and development on broad fronts to help find additional energies. Develop the use of all alternative energies. Conserve energy. And do without luxuries. In unnecessary regard to this last item, we should declare a moratorium on disposable containers, air conditioning in automobiles, and catalytic converters on tail pipes and all exhaust gas recirculation in automobiles (except in Los Angeles and the few cities that have the chimney effect in the downtown areas). We must put an end to the production of large cars by 1980. Build no more buildings that cant have their windows opened. Put lead back into gasoline. Retain the 55 mph speed laws and increase mass transportation many-fold- ." - American Way Features Readers' comments and questions are welcome. The Please write us at the new about including: incentives for the development reasonable about requirements serve only as roadblocks in efforts to explore for new reserves or to build new facilities. We now have so many roadblocks to expanded production that the energy industry is practically inert because of government laws and red tape. Despite the continued wafning from experts, the Federal Power Commission has been required for more than 20 years to keep the well-hea- d price of natural gas at. extremely low levels in order to hold down the price for consumers. These decrease become environmental demands. We must cut v out unnecessary governmental regulations. We must return to the free enterprise system and let the marketplace determine the price of energy. We must be sensible environmental controls must We , American Way Features." P.O. Box lt)9S, Pigeon 37S63. Tennessee Forge, Erma J. Christensen A CORNER ON EDUCATION -- These By Erma J. Christensen Joseph P. Bean, M.D. member of the Glendale, California Unified School Board, on at a symposium spoke Educational Innovations on September 22, 1970. His subjects were Social Studies Texts, Regional Education, PPBS and Taxonomy. Below are some of his thoughts, paraphrased by this author. 1) The important work of the social studies at early elementary level is directed toward aiding the student to UNLEARN what he His attitudes already knows. social' issues con- toward major fronting the world are biased by his family, his community, . and church. 2) The concept of sovereignty of nations must be abolished. Opinion favorable to international government will be developed in social studies in elementary grades. 3) The 'difference between people all over the globe are very superficial....Mankind must be viewed as a global phenomenon, and the artificiality of political boundaries (nations) is detrimental to the provision of each human for his share of the worlds abundance.... These three statements are typical of those found in all social studies textbooks. The mistaken notion that freedom is identical with the institutions of property ownership and profit should not be allowed to state unchallenged.. .only go ownership and state control of the means of production can secure freedom. If regimentation is the result of informed leadership of the nation, then such regimentation is not regimentation at all: It is rather stratagems relate to this writers close observation of the manual, Focus on Youth, which makes statements very much like the foregoing that students learn better with no rigid schedules, no report cards, no religious convictions, the old thou shalt nots no longer apply, and there are no absolutes. A study of Inquiry was made and presented by Dr. Collin Cooper, M.D., and read by Dr. Richard Seymour, M.D., Ph.D. of California, in Washington, D.C. May 22, 1972. The study is paraphrased as follows .Inquiry with a capital I is the classroom technique for use in all subjects which is supposed to teach the children to day-to-d- . social studies ay through inquiry. Without its use PPBS cannot function as the management control mechanism it was designed to be! Sensitivity training and its methodologies are, some of the manipulative techniques open to classroom inquiry inquiry in the way in which the classroom teacher, either knowingly or unknowingly, affects the impressionable childs mind on the basis that teaches him the new religion, HUMANISM. This is the worship of man, or the state, rather than worship of God, the Eternal Father! Listed below are a few of the other names under which Sensitivity Training comes into day-to-d- ay schools. a. b. c. Training Group Dynamics up Auto-Criticis- m d. Operant Conditioning Human e. Relations f. Basic Encounter g. Magic Circle h. Group Counseling i. Management by Objectives j. k. l. Session Self-Hone- st Self-Examinati-on Interpersonal Relations m. n. Human Potential Workshop o. Transactional Analysis (TA) p. Group Criticism q. Sex Education r. Basic Sensuality Self-Evaluati- on s. t. Self-Hypno- . sis Humanizing Experience Learning u. Gestalt Psychosyntheses think like Social Scien- v. Feeling Therapy tists.. ..Inquiry insists that no w. Role Playing (MACOS) decision should be viewed as final. x. Psycho-Dram- a The Inquiry approach is for the y. Human Dynamics purpose of evaluating the pos- z. Values Clarification There are another 26 titles sibility of remaking and changing decisions previously arrived which at....There is a serious question as to whether there is any truth or principle in the education of Inquiry, because the underlying technique denies the student any standard by which to judge truth or falsehood. The most commonly used synonyms for Inquiry are problem solving' or 'learning how to learn' or learning how to think. (M ACOS is used for the purpose of teaching the children how to think. Ed.) For the students the most important result of learning through Inquiry is the CHANGE IN ATTITUDE toward knowledge. As the students engage in dialogue of Inquire they . begin to view knowledge as tentative, rather than absolute, and they come to consider ALL knowledge as subject to revision and conflrmation....In fact, John Bidlap of UCLA states HUMANIZATION, AND that knowledge is in the eye of the beholder." SOCIALIZATION. Dr. Harold Rugg, Professor, Certainly it must be clear to Columbia University Teachers everyone reading this that the anCollege, states: We must teach in nounced goal of the new progressive education is not systematic the schools that a completely state-ownand operated economy TRANSMISSION OF KNOWL-EDGbut a change in ATTImust be developed. It was in 1933 and 34 that TUDE AND BEHAVIOR, which educators had as their prime goal is quite another matter. Since the educationists make that the school take an active part in helping to build the new social it crystal clear that attitudinal and order. Literature is replete with behavioral CHANGE is their goal, indoctrination and propaganda for and the degree of change is their the student to desire collectivism. measure of learning, or It was this type of thinking UNLEARNING what the family which gave birth to the Social has taught the student, it becomes Studies, and with this in mind...it easy to see that the REAL goal is was in the thirties that the term the TOTAL REMAKING OF PERSUASION SOCIETY, that the social animal UNCOERCED came into use as the chief means of being produced will be. the GROUP MAN, internationalist altering traditional ATTITUDES of students. The current aims of cog in the Socialist State. 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