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Special ReportSCIENCE EXPERIMENTSAND AMUSEMENTSFOR CHILDRENCharles Vivian73 scientific experiments are easilyperformed by children without theaid of parent or teacher. Using simplematerials such as steel wool,cotton, candles, compass, coinsand magnets and following step-bystepinstructions, a child can learnto make an air-screw, siphon, invisibleink, mariner's compass, pinholecamera, etc. plus learn how to makea vacuum, find a center of gravity,reflect sound, compress air, electrifya bubble, etc. Over 100 photographsand numerous line drawingsdepict equipment set-up anddesired results.Unabridged republication of 1963edition. 102 photos by S.A.R. Watts.Numerous drawings. $2.25A Tokamak Model in Every Science Classroom!The September issue of The Young Scientist magazine features in itsExperiments section a detailed account of how two 13-year-olds designedand built a simulated fusion tokamak power plant. The prize-winningproject (shown here) got its start after their science teacher at Manhattan'sIntermediate School 187, Herb Friedman, taught a class on fusionenergy based on an article in The Young Scientist.Published five times a year, The Young Scientist covers the frontiers ofscience—news and features on the topics students need to know tomake tomorrow's breakthroughs. For information on bulk orders of TheYoung Scientist, call or write the Fusion Energy Foundation.ther erosion in science education inthe United States will destroy the capacityof the average citizen to deliberaterationally on science policy. 3The Classical CurriculumThe claim of the fundamentaliststhat they would return American educationto some mythical, halcyonpast is destroyed, happily, by a lookat the actual content of education in19th-century America.American education in that periodwas modeled upon the best classicaltraditions of European education. Thefollowing course of study for a 14-year-old is taken not from the Wirszupreport on present-day Soviet education,although it compares favorably;it was typical of the 6,085academies employing 12,260 teachers,enrolling 263,096 pupils, and turningout thousands of elementary schoolteachers in the year 1850. Latin,Creek, French, German, Spanish, mechanics,hydromatics, pneumatics,light and color, optics, perspective,spherical trigonometry, astronomy,the natural history of vegetables andanimals, chemistry, and architecturewith fortifications were typicallytaught in three-year programs modeledon Benjamin Franklin's academyin Philadelphia.Franklin's academy was directlymodeled upon the academy proposalof Gottfried von Leibniz, which wasfamiliar to Franklin through his connectionto James Logan.It is the same program for Leibnizianacademies that LaRouche nowproposes as essential if this nation isto reclaim its posterity. He chooses asa 20th-century point of comparisonthe German educational system thatsurvived until the 1960s, which wasbased upon the 19th-century educa-16 FUSION October-November 1981Special Report
Fusion Reporttional reforms instituted by the vonHumboldt brothers.As LaRouche writes: "Examiningthe postwar Federal Republic of Germanyat closer range, there is nodoubt but that it was chiefly the Germaneducational system, based on theHumboldt program, which enabledthe nation's people to rebuild successfullyafter the treble horrors ofHitler, World War II, and the Britishdirectedpostwar occupation."In an accompanying piece, "Principlesof the New Kameralist Curriculum,"LaRouche develops in detaila positive proposal for the reform ofthe nation's schools. In his introductoryremarks he states:"The key to all education, bothgeneral and later specialist programs,is a rigorous redefinition of what constitutesthe body of knowledge which'must be mastered by any person asprecondition for full rights of citizenship."The education of all citizens offuture true democratic republics isbased on the assimilation of a scienceof history of the struggle to createsuch republics, against irrationalismand 'feudalist' oligarchism. The assimilationof a science of history cannotoccur without a cohering masteringof the true potential powers of literatelanguage. This must be language inthe proper broadest sense of thatterm: classical philology, classical poetry,classical musical composition accordingto the well-tempered laws ofcomposition typified by Bach, Mozart,and Beethoven, and mastery of theprinciples of physical geometry."If we are to win the war againstliberal education, this program mustreceive the widest possible circulation.There is not much time to waste.—Carol WhiteNotes1. See Carol Cleary, "Darwin: A Victim of HisUnfit Theory," Fusion. Jan. 1981, p. 82.2. The 1852 English translation of Cosmos byE.C. Otte is recommended.3. Science and Engineering Education tor the1980s and Beyond, prepared by the NationalScience Foundation and the Department ofEducation, Oct. 1980.4. Unpublished research of Mary Gilbertsonand Jon Pike.What's Behind the Science Magazine Attack?Reviewing Laser Fusion ProgressA derogatory review of the U.S.inertial confinement effort that appearedin the May 1 issue of Science,the weekly magazine of the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement ofScience, presents an opportunity toreview the actual status of the inertialfusion effort and examine the ideologyof the antifusion faction. The article,authored by William D. Metz, istitled "Ambitious Energy Project LosesLuster," with the subheading "Laserfusion, touted as a new energy source,has produced only fizzles; its militaryimplications now predominate."The Science article is curious notonly because it deliberately lies, butalso because the magazine recentlyturned down a factual article on thestate of inertial fusion research by Dr.John Foster, a vice president at TRW,who had headed up the DOE's inertialfusion review committee during theCarter administration.Metz's apparent purpose in attackinglaser fusion is to bring about thecomplete classification of the program,ditching the civilian energy applicationsand making it solely a militaryeffort. Needless to say, such amove would retard fusion progressand prevent the kind of scientific exchangeof ideas that historically hasfostered breakthroughs at the frontiersof science. Metz has set up histechnical arguments against the programto put fusion scientists in a Catch22: To refute his arguments, it is necessaryto report on material that iscurrently classified top secret.As Metz does not report, every majorindustrial-scientific panel that hasreviewed the inertial fusion programover the past decade has concludedFigure 1This 1976 projection for the succession of laser fusion experiments at LawrenceLivermore was presented by Dr. John L. Emmett, director of the LivermoreLaser program, before Congress March 11, 1976. The results projected for theShiva laser have been achieved.Fusion ReportOctober-November 1981 FUSION 17
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