“You’ve got to be carefully taught” – the famous line from the musical The King and I – expresses how many adults feel about the education of young people. “Spare the rod and spoil the child” was a favorite expression of Puritan America. Happily, in the 21st century we are looking for other approaches that will prepare our children to face the world. A good number of our stories are suggesting these new directions.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Literature-for-Children-Digital-Library.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 2/24/2005 The Literature for Children Digital Library Transcript Would you like to read a version of Little Red Riding Hood published in 1880? Or perhaps The Union ABC, an alphabet book published in 1865 in honor of the Union victory in the Civil War, is […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Explanatoids.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/18/2005 The Explanatoids Transcript You can see one part of the legacy of Fred Rodgers — Mr. Rogers to millions of us — literally on the streets and in the parks and playgrounds of his home town of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And it’s a legacy […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hand-in-the-Dough-Science.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Carol Murphy) Air Date 2/17/2005 “Hand in the Dough” Science Transcript La main à la pâte: It’s a familiar expression in French, and it means that to really learn about something, you need to put your hand in the dough. This is the title given to […]
That’s the sound of young children, quietly working on their penmanship in the 2002 French film, To Be and to Have, directed by Nicholas Philibert, which is available at most video stores.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Earth-Balloon.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/12/2004 Earth Balloon Transcript Several months ago, at the annual Public Radio Conference, I had a remarkable experience. I walked inside the Earth. Well, it was actually inside an inflated version of our world called the Earth Balloon, which was filled with air and […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Center-for-Disease-Controls-Cards-for-Kids.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/10/2004 CDC’s Playing Cards for Kids Transcript Emails from listeners have brought us very interesting ideas for stories over the years that we’ve been on the air, but none quite as unexpected as this. We recently received a link to the Center for Disease […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/National-School-Lunch-Week-Pizza.mp3 Author Malini Roy Air Date 10/12/2004 School Lunch Week: Pizza Transcript All over America, school lunches and pizza seem to go hand in hand. But few of us realize that this favorite of children and grown-ups alike has had a long and convoluted history down the millennia. Pizza as […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-License-for-the-Month-of-the-Dinosaur.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 10/1/2004 A License for The Month of the Dinosaur Transcript Recently, while going through my old childhood books, I found my brother’s dinosaur hunting license. It reads: Dinosaur Hunting License Special Permit No. 737-8686 Issued to: Colin Issued by Authority U.S. Reptile Control Commission […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Why-are-All-the-Black-Kids-Sitting-Together-in-the-Cafeteria.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/9/2004 Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Transcript Today, at the University of Florida, we are having a community-wide conversation about race — one of the continuing and pressing concerns in our own area and in our nation as […]
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Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Back-to-School-with-Unicorns.mp3 Author Alisson Clark Air Date 9/7/2004 Back to School with Unicorns Transcript As the summer draws to a close, the newspaper arrives at our house stuffed with advertisements for back-to-school supplies. Although it’s been years since I’ve needed any of them, the sight of all those crisp new folders, […]