Word: ceptsmanship
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...ceptsmanship" catching on at the colleges? (See EDUCATION...
Some professors openly encourage ceptsmanship, stress the cept in their lectures, argue that students who retain the cepts acquire an understanding that goes beyond a rote knowledge of who said what. These teachers may also delight in the cept as a handy way of rating the quality of a student's essay in quantitative terms. They merely scan the essay, underline the cepts, assign a numerical value to each, and tot them up. Other teachers never admit they are even aware of cepts-but tacitly use them anyway in grading. Superlative ceptsmanship amounts to a canny duel between teacher...
Princeton's philosophy department recently was concerned enough about the potential evils of ceptsmanship to hold a meeting on how to stop its spread. And even Ceptsman Tenner, when not in a whimsical mood, gets a bit worried: "The ceptsman too often thinks he knows more than he does because of his superficial felicity. We may be getting a generation of illiberal liberal-arts majors who think of ideas as symbols to be manipulated rather than as important issues to be serious about...
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