“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/Manners-II.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 4/18/2000 Manners for Boys Transcript Boys and manners? It’s not as oxymoronic as it sounds, as Rita Smith informs us in her Rediscovery for today. It has always been important to pass on correct manners from one generation to the next. One of the […]
Here’s Rita Smith, the curator of the Baldwin Collection of Children’s Literature, to discuss historical manners instruction for children.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Anti-Smoking-Websites.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 1/11/2000 Anti-Smoking Sites Transcript On January 11, 1964 Surgeon General Luther Terry released the first report on the harmful effects of cigarette smoking. Thirty-six years later, here are some of the basic facts: First–80% of all smokers become addicted to cigarettes before they turn […]
Rita Smith’s Lost and Found essay today is about one of the hardest letters of the alphabet to make up anything about: the letter X.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Cool-Internet-Sites.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 11/22/1999 Cool Internet Sites Transcript Here come those cold, wet, winter Saturdays! Here come the cries of “I’m bored!”and “There’s nothing to do!” But take heart parents, and grandparents, friends and neighbors, because on days like these, the Internet is our friend! I know, […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/National-Chemistry-Week.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/8/1999 National Chemistry Week Transcript This is National Chemistry Week. My father was an inorganic, analytical chemist. “Inorganic” means metal, he tells me — and that’s what he worked with all of his adult life — those red-hot lines of alloys that ran through […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/School-Lunch-Week.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/13/1999 School Lunch Week Transcript It’s School Lunch Week and the kids on the playground aren’t singing about the joys of macaroni and cheese or yogurt and fruit, or even pizza with four toppings. When I asked them what they’d like for lunch — […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Bullies.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 9/14/1999 Bullies Transcript On my way home from school every day in third grade, Paulie Sullivan beat me up. I fought him, but always lost. He was bigger than me — a burly fifth grader. I tried coming home a different way, but within […]
