Word: bluebook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top, "Illustrate;" "Be Specific;" etc? They mean it. The illustrations needn't, of course, be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered through your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume ever wrote; don't say just "Medieval cathedrals"--name nine. think of a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If you can't come...
Thriving on dissatisfaction with public schools, 3R bans every possible "frill"-dances, student government, fund drives, P.T.A., and all athletics except for daily calisthenics. For a tuition of $900 a year, it offers old-fashioned work, using McGuffey and Noah Webster's 1783 Bluebook Speller (last revised in 1906). The only concession to modernity is grouping by ability in each subject, not by grades, so students can whiz through faster. Every 3R kindergartener writes and understands numbers up to 25, and some to 100. They begin reading at 4½. And it's all done without student geniuses...
Unfortunately, the grader is not a machine and his standards do vary from bluebook to bluebook--but that is not the most serious problem. Graders rarely have time to comment on final exams and rarely have a chance to talk personally with students. If education is defined as a dialogue between teacher and student, it's hard to see where Harvard's final exams...