Stories by R. A. Lafferty Vol 1 Part 33

TO JOINT REPORT.

We give here, as perhaps of some interest, the curriculum of the Camiroi Primary Education.

FIRST YEAR COURSE:.

Playing one wind instrument Simple drawing of objects and numbers.

Singing. (This is important Many Earth people sing who cannot sing.

This early instruction of the Camiroi prevents that occurrence.) Simple arithmetic, hand and machine.

First acrobatics.

First riddles and logic.

Mnemonic religion.

First dancing.

Walking the low wire.

Simple electric circuits.

Raising ants. (Eoempts, not Earth ants).

SECOND YEAR COURSE.

Playing one keyboard instrument Drawing, faces, letters, motions.

Singing comedies.

Complex arithmetic, hand and machine.

Second acrobatics.

First jokes and logic.

Quadratic religion.

Second dancing.

Simple defamation. (Spirited attacks on the character of one fellow student, with elementary falsification and simple hatchet-job programming.) Performing on the medium wire.

Project electric wiring.

Raising bees. (Galelea, not Earth bees.) Reading and voice. (It is here that the student who may have fallen into bad habits of rapid reading is compelled to read at voice speed only.) Soft stone sculpture.

Situation comedy.

Simple algebra, hand and machine.First gymnastics.

Second jokes and logic.

Transcendent religion.

Complex acrobatic dancing.

Complex defamation.

Performing on the high wire and the sky pole.

Simple radio construction.

Raising, breeding and dissecting frogs. (Karakoh, not Earth frogs.) FOURTH YEAR COURSE:.

History reading, Camiroi and galactic, basic and geological.

Decadent comedy.

Simple geometry and trigonometry, hand and machine.

Track and field.

s.h.a.ggy people jokes and hirsute logic.

Simple obscenity.

Simple mysticism.

Patterns of falsification.

Trapeze work.

Intermediate electronics.

Human dissection.

FIFTH YEAR COURSE:.

History reading, Camiroi and galactic, technological.

Introverted drama.

Complex geometries and a.n.a.lytics, hand and machine.

Track and field for fifth form record.

First wit and logic.

First alcoholic appreciation.

Complex mysticism.

Setting intellectual climates, defamation in three dimensions.

Simple Oratory.

Complex trapeze work.

Inorganic chemistry.

Advanced electronics.

Advanced human dissection.

Fifth Form Thesis.

The child is now ten years old and is half through his primary schooling. He is an unfinished animal, but he has learned to learn.

SIXTH YEAR COURSE:.

Reemphasis on slow reading.

Simple prodigious memory.

History reading, Camiroi and galactic, economic.

Horsemans.h.i.+p (of the Patrushkoe, not the Earth horse.) Advance lathe and machine work for art and utility.

Literature, pa.s.sive.

Calculi, hand and machine pankration.

Advanced wit and logic.

Second alcoholic appreciation.

Differential religion.

First business ventures.

Complex oratory.

Building-scaling. (The buildings are higher and the gravity stronger than on Earth; this climbing of buildings like human flies calls out the ingenuity and daring of the Camiroi children.) Nuclear physics and post-organic chemistry.

Simple pseudo-human a.s.sembly.

SEVENTH YEAR COURSE:.

History reading, Camiroi and galactic, cultural.

Advanced prodigious memory.

Vehicle operation and manufacture of simple vehicle.

Literature, active.Astrognosy, prediction and programming.

Advanced pankration.

Spherical logic, hand and machine.

Advanced alcoholic appreciation.

Integral religion.

Bankruptcy and recovery in business.

Conmans.h.i.+p and trend creation.

Post-nuclear physics and universals.

Transcendental athletics endeavor.

Complex robotics and programming.

EIGHTH YEAR COURSE:.

History reading, Camiroi and galactic, seminal theory.

Consummate prodigious memory.

Manufacture of complex land and water vehicles.

Literature, compenduous and terminative. (Creative book-burning following the Camiroi thesis that nothing ordinary be allowed to survive.) Cosmic theory, seminal.

Philosophy construction.

Complex hedonism.

Laser religion.

Conmans.h.i.+p, seminal.

Consolidation of simple genius status.

Post-robotic integration.

NINTH YEAR COURSE:.