Glasser builds his alternative, a "School Without Failure," on an analysis of what children need to achieve a successful identity and on an examination of the ways in which schools affect children to teach them failure. The author discusses the Glasser approach and describes an attempt to implement the approach in a Palo Alto elementary…

This project did the planning and pilot phases of an effort to improve the teaching of human relations in grades K-12 of public and private schools in the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area. In the pilot phase, the project furnished on-the-job training for approximately 70 schools. The training was given by teams of human relations…

The Cherokee's version of how the earth was created is given. (NQ)

The Arapaho's version of how the earth was created is given. (NQ)

The notion of alienation as presented in the writings of Frantz Fanon needs a theoretical analysis which considers its economic, racial and political aspects. Marx wrote on alienation in a similar way portraying it as a self-fulfilling prophecy which is fraught with violence and dehumanization. (VM)

Addresses several issues related to humanizing science teaching, noting that in theory, such humanizing could cover any aspect of the changing relationship between man and science. Suggests that aims and objectives are needed so that materials for humanizing science can be adequately evaluated. (JN)

An alternative title might be, "How to Make Your Students Feel Ten Feet Tall"! (Editor)

Author stated that man must learn to live with man in order to create a humane climate in which education can fulfill its role as a developer of minds. (RK)

Presents the fallacy of four commonly held views about the necessity of grading and suggests ways the principal start the process of grading reform. (Author/DN)

Summaries of 6 articles relating to various educational problems. (SP)

Criticizes the overemphasis on change in recent rhetorical theory at the expense of enduring elements. The centrality of language in human experience is discussed as constituting a permanent core in rhetorical theory and forming the basis of rhetoric as a humane and substantive art. (JMF)

Teachers can help students restore the human dimension in the learning process through a wide variety of activities. Newspaper stories, magazine articles, and television news coverage are excellent sources for the language arts teacher's efforts to stimulate student awareness of their feelings and environment. (Author/RK)

Anthropomorphism describes the tendency to imbue the real or imagined behavior of nonhuman agents with humanlike characteristics, motivations, intentions, or emotions. Although surprisingly common, anthropomorphism is not invariant. This article describes a theory to explain when people are likely to anthropomorphize and when they are not, focused…

This lay version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (the original version was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1948) has been written in simplified vocabulary to make it understandable to a wider range of ages and reading abilities. The declaration consists of a preamble followed by a listing of 30 goals common to…

Author believes that to create a humanistic school we need consider only one factor - the choice of the principal and staff. Here he describes the organizing of Scarborough's L'Amoreaux Collegiate Institute. (Editor)