Education: Swinging Teacher

Well known and loved by Los Angeles school children is a plump, towheaded art teacher named Natalie Robinson Cole. Full of zest and zing, Mrs. Cole likes to break teaching rules, encourages her pupils to break learning rules. Los Angelenos are hocked by her methods, surprised at her results. This summer the remarkable creations of her pupils—mostly Mexicans, Chinese and Japanese—were displayed at progressive teachers' workshops in the U. S., at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Distributed among U. S. teachers this week was a highly readable book, The Arts in the Classroom...