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The Saber-Tooth Curriculum

The document discusses the concept of Paleolithic education through the lens of Harold Benjamin's book, The Saber-Tooth Curriculum, which emphasizes the need for educational evolution to meet changing survival skills. It highlights the importance of balancing traditional methods with innovative approaches, as a tribe learns to adapt to new challenges. Ultimately, it illustrates the transition from outdated practices to modern educational needs in prehistoric times.

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The Saber-Tooth Curriculum

The document discusses the concept of Paleolithic education through the lens of Harold Benjamin's book, The Saber-Tooth Curriculum, which emphasizes the need for educational evolution to meet changing survival skills. It highlights the importance of balancing traditional methods with innovative approaches, as a tribe learns to adapt to new challenges. Ultimately, it illustrates the transition from outdated practices to modern educational needs in prehistoric times.

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Old stone age

Paleolithic Education – Sabertooth Curriculum


- Pre-historic theory
- Enjoying in traditional ways & old system
of education

Author
- Creates engaging story about cave men

New first hammermaker


- First educt’s theories & a member of tribe

Subkects- survival of the fittest


 Fish grabbing- method of catching fish
 Horse clubbing- hunting wild horse using
wood clubs
 Scarring saber-tooth tiger

Harold Benjamin (76 y/o he passed away)


 They catch fish with the use of bare hand
but now they use net
 Woolly- hose clubbing – hunting horse
 Tiger scarring- mananakot ng tiger/sibat
replace dangerous bears

Connected in daily lives


Ice age
A new curriculum
Radical tribes men began to think new way
- Net

Horse – antelope trap using a nosed vine


Tiger scarring- camouflaged to trap bear

Abner Peddiwell- pseudonym


Harold Raymond Wayne Benjamin Newfist was a brilliant educator and thinker of pre-
historic times.
Also Known As: Abner Peddiwell
He watched the children of his tribe playing
Born: March 27, 1893 at Gilmanton,Wisconsin
United States Help the tribe derive more food, shelter, clothing,
Died: April 19, 1969 (76 years old) at Barlimore and security.
Maryland USA

Newfist developed the first curriculum, that consists


University of Oregon Stanford Graduate School of 3 basic subjects.
Education (Ph.D.)
 “Fish-Grabbing-with-the-Bare-Hands”
 “Woolly-Horse-Clubbing”
 “Saber-Tooth-Tiger-Scaring-with-Fire”
TEACHING CAREER
 Salem Heights Elementary School in 1915
 Superintendent of schools in Umatilla,
“Saber-Tooth-Tiger-Scaring -with-Fire.”
Oregon until 1922
 Assistant professor of education at the
University of Oregon until 1925
 University of Minnesota - Professor of • New-Fist taught the children these subject, and
Education and Assistant Dean they enjoyed these purposeful activities more than
 University of Colorado - Director of the playing with colored pebbles.
College of Education
 University of Maryland, College Park - • The years went by, the new fist was called by the
Dean of the College of Education Great Mystery to the Land of the Setting Sun.
 Peabody College - Chairman of Social
Foundations of Education •They were replaced by shy and speedy antelopes
with a scent of danger that no one could get close
enough to club them.

Saber-tooth curriculum •And finally, as these disruptions not enough the


increasing dampness of the air caused the saber
 Harold Benjamin's most popular book is The tooth tigers to die.
Saber-Tooth Curriculum.
Fortunately, a new breed of brilliant educators
emerged. Some radicals even began to criticize the
school's curriculum and urged that net making,
Date published snare-setting, and pit-digging were indispensable to
modern life and shoaid be taught in the schools.
McGraw-Hill first published The Saber- Tooth
Curriculum in 1939, and it has remained a classic
bestseller to this date.

Relevance of the Saber-Tooth Curriculum Today

1. Education must change with time.

2. New skills are needed.


Summary
3. Balance between tradition and innovation.
 A tribe teaches survival skills, sticking to
outdated methods.
 A new breed of brilliant educators emerged,
who suggested in updating the curriculum.
 The tribe resists but eventually adopts new
idea.

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