What's New; 290; UN. Part 5: International School

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what's new? Hi. Last summer, when I was in Washington, D.C., I had the pleasure of seeing some of the people that you've seen on this program from time to time, and in visiting many of the national shrines and monuments that we've talked about on other days. One day, while I was there, I saw something that fascinated me. At the entrance to the White House, where visitors line up to go inside the White House on the official tour, there was a line of people that extended all the way down to behind the building back up around the other side, a city block or so, across the street, down that block to the corner, up that block to what was finally the end of the line. All of these people were waiting in line to go through the home of the President of the United States.

I think that many of them were kind of secretly hoping that they'd run into the President or some of his family on the tour. Do you feel that way yourself? That you'd like to meet the President? Well, just the other day, some friends of ours who were involved in a somewhat similar incident, when they were touring the United Nations headquarters in New York. On the 30th floor, they were met by the man who was effectively the head of the United Nations, Mr. Oothant, the UN's Secretary General. It was an unexpected pleasure for them, and the conversation went something like this. There you go. This is a view of the United Nations. This is a view of the United Nations. Yes, it's a spectacular view. It's a bit night and the lights are off. It's a very, very fantastic. There's a United States mission. This is a panel building with a flat top. In a few minutes, you'll see helicopter landing on the top.

You have school days on the first Avenue and 70th Street, isn't it? Yes, sir. It's not a very new building. Very old building. Well, you'll get a new building in two years. You'll be in the 7th grade. You'll be in the 6th grade. In two years? Oh, in two years, 7th. Oh, yes. You're interested in art? Yes, it's really fun to draw. But you can draw. No, hey, wow. Michael, do you draw? Oh, yes. I see you have a painter. Well, yes. You like music? Oh, yes. You play any instrument? No, this is my corner. You then sing? Yes. What's your favorite singer? If it's a group, it's Beatles. If it is an individual?

Well. Well, who's the best? Ricky Nelson or Elvis Presley? It's just a favorite TV program. Mad for Michael? Mad for Michael. Yes. That's it. I was sure that Michael was going to say, what's new? The man from Uncle. In its own way, the job of Secretary General is to the UN. What the job of President is to our country. There are, of course, many differences. But both men are submitted to the same pressures and are required and expected to exercise similar qualities of leadership. Right now, we're going to resume our tour of the United Nations, and instead of our young friends going to meet our guide, Miss Maria Zaheri, today, she's going to meet them. In the heart of Manhattan, stands the old building, which, together with a suburban branch, houses the international school. On this day, our young friends had promised us a special guided tour.

Hi, Maria. Hi, Maria Zaheri. Hello, Michael. Hi, Maria Zaheri. What's your last name? Well, your last name is in class right now. But first of all, we're going to meet our director, Mr. Khaled. Sure. This is an old building, is it? Yes. You can hardly wait for the new one. Yes. The paintings do help. Who made these paintings? The scenic. Mr. Khaled, could you tell me how the idea came of an international school?

Well, you know, members of the secretariat and delegations come from all over the world, and many of them go back to their own countries. And they wished, of course, that their children should be prepared to transfer back to schools in many different educational systems. They wish them to be in a school that preserved and cherished their own national cultural heritage, and hence, they chose an international school and not the national one of the host country. As you know, there are many American students in the school, too. I presume many children, when they come here, Mrs. La Cruz, they have a language problem. We have children who come speaking, no English at all. And for those children, we have to give them particular classes until they can join the other classes. We also have a French section in the morning in our elementary school. And so we do try to preserve the cultural heritage, and the other times that our children bring with them when they come. Here we have Mrs. Rivera, whose children are in the school, and I would be interested to know how your children have adapted

to our school and to life in New York. They maintain the Indian background in the home. Naturally, this is run by. But I think it's very important that they feel they belong to a larger community, a world community, and this is what the school does for them. And it's easy, perhaps, best of all, in the international treatment of history. Mr. Nimmons here teaches that in the school. Well, I have taught history in both international schools in Europe and also in national schools in Europe. And I do find that it's very different here as we do have such a very wide range of nationality that no class is ever exactly the same. And we do have a very considerable difference in point of view in one class. We can be discussing Cyprus and have Greeks and Turkish students in the same class. We are always discussing Kashmir, and we have Pakistanis and Indians in the same class. We do this quite amicably,

and we at least endeavor to do everything in the history department without any bias. What does bias mean? Well, when you see I come from Ireland, and if everything that I told you in history was from an Irish background, that is, I was trying to explain everything through Irish points of view, that is one type of bias. But a worst type of bias is where I would try to explain everything from an Irish point of view, but to criticize everybody else at the same time. In other words, that I'm right. All the rest of you are wrong. Mr. Rashid, you've been about four years with the school. When the senior students leave the school, are they prepared to enter colleges or universities in their own countries? Yes. Besides that, we also take the college boards, which is quite a headache. And then the school is involved in the international baccalaureate, which I suppose Mr. Koh would perhaps be the person to talk about. We are working with our sister school in Geneva,

the international school of Geneva, in developing an international baccalaureate, which can be taken in many languages, and will enable students to qualify for universities in any part of the world. How did the school start? What's the history of it? When did it start? It started in a little guest house at leg success, near the spary-ran gyroscope works, which was the first home of the UN. And in 1947, the Secretary-General gave this guest house to the use of a small nursery school, and the school has gradually grown, and built new quarters, first of all, in Parkway Village in Jamaica, and now in the hot manhattan. First, Robert took me to a Chinese class. Mrs. Koh, Mrs. Ms. Maria, are you in? Hello. Hello. She's been in the data school, and I wanted her to see how little children start learning Chinese. Good.

Please sit down. Okay. I have some work to read. Thank you very much. I'm 17 years old. I'm 32 years old, right? I'm 3 years old. I've been a little girl, a little girl, a little girl, a little girl, a little girl, a little girl, a little girl, a little girl, a very complicated. Yes, you like, I have someone to explain to you. Yes, I was also going to ask what it was about. Valerie, would you explain? Oh, ty'so? His head is too small. Jiao, ty da. His feet are too big. What? I draw a knee. I draw a brick. It's very good, but how come you're learning Chinese? Found in my father says, I should learn it. I can't be read something, this is part of a lesson. Well over there they look very busy, what are they doing?

They have different books. These two children, they know much more Chinese and they are doing sentence making. Oh it looks much more difficult. What are you doing writing a story? No writing sentences. Just sentences? Yes. Want to explain to Mary what you were writing? Yes. Want to spoil each other? I mean what rabbit? I have a rabbit. Go out! Papa, go out here. Go out to me. Proud. Go out. And how do you say good bye in Chinese? Thank you. Oh? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Very good. I have to sit there. Yes, Barbara.

Here we go. Yes, I have to go to some classes too. All right. Good bye. Thank you. Thank you, Jen. Thank you. Thank you. Next, I visited J.A. Lakshmi's art class. Hello. Hello. How are you? So I see you're all doing different things. What are you doing? I'm breathing. What is it? I can't. Well, I don't know what I'm going to do with it. I haven't decided. But have you a design already traced? Or are you just inventing it to go along? We invented just as you go along. Of course. Is that the first color you make? No. You're simply an expert at it. Sometimes. Enjoy doing it? Yes. I feel like joining them. Would you like to move on your own? Very nice. You must get it. Thank you. Did you make a design?

Yes. How pretty. It looks tiny. Thanks. Do you have one? Sure. Can I choose? Yes. What do you use them for? You got to make cards, aren't you? Yes. It's going to be very difficult for Christmas cards. Is that that? Yes. I'm sorry. Is that your first one? Yes. Would you do anything to the buckle over here? I'm going to open it. Miss Lobles, I have the calendar here. And it's ready to go to press. And we thought that you might be interested in seeing some of the work that the children here did and the older students contributed to it. Definitely worth it. Joanna has done the cover, which is made of a paper type. Joanna would you like to do that? Yes, do you have Joanna? How did you do that? How did you do that? I was happy to see you, the older sisters. And what are you going to do with the calendars?

We are going to print it in large numbers and hope to sell many of them. The children take them out and sell them in the form. Many, many people will buy them because the money raised by the calendars goes to our scholarship fund. to our scholarship fund. And it includes the work of children all the way from the Lower School up to the age of 18. This is a student who's 18. Her work, you can see, is much more sophisticated. And this girl is from Thailand. And she'll be here. Yes. Well, there you can. You can see the influence of the country. Yes, and this one, you can. It's not always so. And in this case, Joanna is Polish. And we had to do a Polish paper cut. And it's actually learned to do it here. But it's a very charming one. It's very attractive, isn't it? I like to look through it. But I've taken up so much of your time already. I really enjoyed it. I really appreciate you doing that. Thank you.

Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye, children. Goodbye. Now, it was almost turn to take me to his music class. Hello. Hello, Ms. Kaffum. Meet Marie Zahary. Are you here? Hello. Hello. Hello, Ms. Kaffum. Meet Marie Zahary. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Marie Zahary, are you and Guy? I am. It's very nice of Amher to bring you in. Please be seated, Amher. I hear you have met a recording. Yes. We did a recording of folk songs from all over the world. Yes. Would you like to hear some of the songs? I love them. They're folk songs. Yes, they're folk songs. I'd love to hear them. Just a few, a few moments. I just had a few moments. So, I'm happy with the seed. All right.

It's absolutely wonderful.

You have very good students. Yes. Thank you very much. I have to run along and carry on my tour. Thank you very much. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Michael introduced me to his social studies meeting. Hello. Hello. Mrs. Knight, Mr. Barras. This is Mrs. Harry. You are in guard and she wanted to visit our class. So, she is. So, it's my turn to be given a tour today. How very nice. When Barbara, Amher and Michael were in the United Nations, they were talking about the projects. You prepared many here. What do you study? Well, it must have been one of their social studies projects they were talking about. This year, we study ancient civilizations. They go from ancient China. See some of our work out there. And ancient India. Yeah.

And ancient Egypt. We find that some of the children and their parents both have traveled a great deal in foreign countries. And very often they can bring in things that make our social studies very exciting. For example, Nia has brought these things from ancient Egypt. Her father has an art gallery here and travels quite often to Africa. Barbara, why don't you tell us about your project? Well, we were studying about China. And so, China is writing as a part of it. So, we wrote out stories and churnies. And we put the English translation over there. So, everybody else can know what it was about. And did you write all of Chinese yourself? Uh-huh. Isn't it very difficult? Well, sorry, but it gets kind of easy after work. Can you be very careful to have two? No, I can go for a long time. You can go pretty fast. I think I can be awesome. I'm trying to figure it out. And you read it. Well, Dr. Barzama, read it from top to bottom. Yes. And it was supposed to go like, scroll from left to right.

See, I mean, right away. We wrote it from left to right, but it's supposed to go from right to left. Because... Right. No, we just still do it that way in our course. In addition to our work on ancient civilizations, some time on American history, especially the colonial period, in which can be presented in two entirely different ways. Yes. Makes it very interesting, certainly very challenging for all of us. Thank you. Oh, excellent work. A-plus. Very wonderful. You must have different points of view. The children coming from different parts of the world. Yes, that's very often true. So you try very hard to show the different sides of every problem. I promised I wouldn't be too long here. So we'll probably meet later. Thank you. Goodbye, children. Then, I looked in on a French classroom.

Bonjour, Brazil. Come on, tell me. Thank you very much. Oh, you have started already in the class? Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. It's very large. How old are they? They are eight years old. Yes, it's a wonderful age to start languages. No, but we do start a year. A year? Yes, a five. Oh, you do start a five. Or any studying besides English and French and the other languages? Would you study? You also study Arabic. That's wonderful. Is that your book? Yes. It's very pretty. There are beautiful colors. What's the story about? This is the story of a little French boy who goes to America. And by the way, we love to know a little scene about it, on the stage. If you want to see something... Yes, well, part of it, because I can't stand it. Yes, with pleasure. Okay, go ahead.

Grigori. Do you want to come here if you want to come here? The school is over. André and Ariane are here. My mother is in the house. She doesn't want to work. Do you take the phone off? Grigori. André is good at the phone. Hello, papa. André, I have a surprise for you. A surprise for me? Yes, of course. It's for you. André, what do you know? It's for you. It's for you in America. If you go to a visit, you can attend to your cousin. Oh, papa. What is it? It's beautiful. You do everything. Yes, yes, papa. I don't speak English. It doesn't make sense. Yes, everything is for you. André. Yes, papa. Yes, papa. I don't speak English. Yes, papa. Papa don't speak English. Do you speak English or what?

I don't speak English. Papa, my mother used to speak English. But she said she says I miss you when you speak English. Say, for me, darling. How long did it take you to learn all that? I will say three years. Three years, no, but I'm in the play. Overplay one week. One week. We can learn from that. Yes, we can. We are very good memory, and it's very good French. Thank you. And I'm sure they like it. Do you like learning French? Yes. Well, I would like to stay, too. But... Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. I visited this suburban school to see the senior girls rehearse an assembly program of Indian dot sets.

But do the movements have particular meanings? Sometimes we do things like bird, you know, or the bird singing, or the flower. These are the different movements, tell the whole story. Yes, sometimes the dance that the girls are going to do is a story about gypsies in the mountain. You see that? Go ahead. all right girls let's hold it there we'll stop and we'll go over and do that

movement again and polish it up make it nice and clean for the performance all right it's a very gauge actually does yes it is doesn't have a happy ending a very happy ending indeed well I wish I could stay but I have to go they're all like dolls good bye good bye let's start this movement again get imposed forward then I learned the bobbin is cool this is an island all around the east river and this building has four floors the youngest children are going to be on the

bottom junior house the middle house next new by then will be mighty seniors you'll be on the next top house then the tutorial house here's a student center underneath there's a swimming pool and a gymnasium they're not allowed to dive in the river and here is a friend here walking the plank well thank you very much for this visit to the international school we all enjoyed it yeah very much you know it very well but I discovered a lot of things I hope you enjoyed your tour and I hope you enjoyed them too and thank you for being with us bye I've been asked if in spite of its obvious differences of language and the variety of

places from once the youngsters come whether or not the UN International School is very much like other schools well you've seen for yourself many of the differences and the similarities and maybe this bit of leftover paper from one of the students will help you out in yatsutsu and it got curly which translates no more pencils no more books no more teachers dirty looks right now I have enough time to say that we've enjoyed having you along for our what's new UN tour and hope you'll be able to join us next time until then this is well been for saying so long the name of this program as always is what's new so next time we'll find out even more about the world we're in and the bigger world that's in us this is national educational television