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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, June 17, 1973 Cae Studies Nuttv Ideas n Thrive in California y By Dr Max Rafferty mm n n .1 .v ; rpvutc') s to explain the recent population migration t(. California r m in m Iis N . called Disa.strophic Theory of J Settlement, and gYnfnl it t mm gees-thi- way: About a century ago and before the invenof tion the seismograph. vas there Dr. Rafferty "1 a sudden, undetected tilting of the North American continent sharply toward the west, and since then all the loose nuts have rolled into California As an old Californian of 40 years standmg, I deny this canard w ith all the indignation I can muster. Vet I have to say that a lot of nutty ideas1 seem to burgeon and ripen in the sunshme of the Golden State, especially in the field of education. 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'Wedding Rings sheared Not Quite Clear How Dr. Rohwer expects the small fry to program a computer when they havent learned to read, add or subtract yet is not quite clear, but thats what the man says, along with this absolute gem The older of punst lllogie: the student, the more efficiently and effectively he can jacquard towel ensemble comes in array of decorator colors Floral Fantasy towel ensemble features a tricolor looped jacquard design. Both have fringed edges Hand towel reg. 50, Sale 1.27. Wash cloth reg. 75C, Sale 63C. 1 learn. Now, no matter how you walk around that one and look at it sideways, it makes no sense at all. The whole push these days is toward getting the kids into school earlier, not later, and to say that a person learns things better the later he tackles them is sim- ply to fly in the teeth erything we know about mastery of foreign languages, just to give one example. Kindergarten is the place to start teaching French, and the later you wait, the harder it gets of ev- End lp Absurd But even if you grant Roh-wer- s end up premise, you absurd. If the older the student is, the better he learns, him to why not start teaching 12th in the grade? He read should be four years better than he was in junior high. Sheer jackassery. tops it. MalDr. s Claremont College the wants colm Douglas readschools to stop teaching on any level. He ing at all, cannot claims that reading should be taught. The schools the do impossistop trying to ble. His point seems to be that reading is a personal, private most effecexperience. The surround tive approach is to wide a variety of pupils with and to stimmaterials reading interulate their thinking with But No. case 2 esting subject matter. Artificial Process Well, shucks, theres nothmg that wrong with that. 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