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Identifier
Kanza1977_044
Object Type
Yearbook
Creation Date
1-1-1977
Description
A 1977 Kanza yearbook page showing a photograph of guest speaker and Educational Testing Service Minority Affairs director Chuck Stone, and an article about ETS.
Transcription
Spring Emphasis Speakers Talk of Learning
An educational renaissance based on the spread of respect between teachers and students is greatly needed in this country, according to Philadelphia Daily News columnist and former Educational Testing Service (ETS) Minority Affairs Director Chuck Stone. Stone spoke to about 40 persons in the Imperial Ballroom of the Student Senate Emphasis series.
Discussing “The Missing Element in the American Education System: The Fourth R”, Stone asserted that if the system treated all students as equals, many current problems in learning wouldn’t exist today. He said that the failure of minority children to learn should often be blamed on teacher’s attitudes, rather than socioeconomic conditions.
Characterizing ETS as the “godfather of the testing mafia”, he attacked the usefulness of I.Q. tests for persons with varying cultural values, and proposed the use of a B.Q. -- bigotry quotient, and L.Q. -- learning quotient, based on values familiar to the examinees.
Stone discussed studies showing that minority students learn the best when their cultural differences are respected and ultimately understood by teachers who can acclimate to the styles of their students.
“We live in a society of diametric paradoxes,” Stone said. “Man can gather rock from the moon, but he can’t fix pot-holes in the street. Historians will look back on us as a society neurotically obsessed with school buses.”
“In this era of Jimmy Carter, Roots, and the second post-reconstruction period, America is cutting back on racial advances because it is tired of them, just as in the period after the Civil War. It [we?] had teachers who believed that all students had the capacity to learn, we could build a world of mutual reciprocal relationships where respect is based on humanity.”
