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...ceptsmanship" catching on at the colleges? (See EDUCATION...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Mar. 26, 1965 | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching: The Use & Abuse of the Cept | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching: The Use & Abuse of the Cept | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

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