[Theodore R.]

Yes, but the American people still believe in state-controlled education, the more controls the more they like it. That may be wife mostly liberals hold school board seats even in conservative states.

[Young Werther]

My Eight Grade teacher introduced himself on his first day of class. He stated that he had a Masters in History and Political Science and was a certified teacher. He then said that through the whole process he had never been shown how to unscrew the top of our head and pour in the knowledge he possessed.

He told us that in order to learn we must read books, the daily newpaper and select and read a magazine to further our interests, ( I picked Scientific American)_. He then told us how he was going to show us stuff!

I grew up in a suburb of Newark NJ. He took us on various field trips. To the New York Museum and Bronx Zoo. The Edison Laboratory where we learned about the 1100 patents he developed. We then took a day trip Philadelphia where we saw the Liberty Bell and the room where the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were drafted. "We came, we saw we learned!!!"