Summarize the "saber-tooth curriculum" story and its main points.

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Harold Benjamin
1:1 The saber-tooth curriculum

This is a chapter from a famous satire on curriculum published in the United States in 1939. It tells the story of a prehistoric tribe which decided to introduce systematic education for its children. The curriculum was specifically designed to meet particular survival needs in the local environment and so included such subjects as saber-tooth tiger-scaring with fire. But the climate of the region changed and the saber-tooth tigers perish. Attempts to change the curriculum to meet new survival needs encounter stern opposition.

The first great educational theorist and practitioner of whom my imagination has any record was a man of Chellean times whose full name was New-Fist-Hammer-Maker but whom, for convenience, I shall hereafter call New-Fist.

New-Fist was a doer, in spite of the fact that there was little in his environment with which to do anything very complex. You have undoubtedly heard of the pear-shaped, chipped-stone tool which archeologists call the coup-de-poing or fist hammer. New-Fist gained his name and a considerable local prestige by producing one of these artifacts in a less rough and more useful form than any previously known to his tribe. His hunting clubs were generally superior weapons, moreover, and his fire-using techniques were patterns of simplicity and precision. He knew how to do things his community needed to have done, and he had the energy and will to go ahead and do them. By virtue of these characteristics he was an educated man.

New-Fist was also a thinker. Then, as now, there were few lengths to which men would not go to avoid the labor and pain of thought. More readily than his fellows, New-Fist pushed himself beyond those lengths to the point where cerebration was inevitable. The same quality of intelligence which led him into the socially approved activity of producing a superior artifact also led him to

From The saber-tooth curriculum by J. A. Peddiwell. Foreword by Harold Benjamin. Copyright 1939 by McGraw-Hill Inc. Used with permission of McGraw-Hill Book Company.