Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adoption of the elective system at the New Haven Institution. As in the action of the University authorities the move is in way of reposing more reliance in the attitude of the individual toward his scholastic duties. The new system is expected to place less emphasis on the classroom and supervised instruction and more on the work of original research and independent study...
...fair reflection of their own point of view. This attitude, as he correctly says, is marked by "an ardent appreciation of the human element in teaching and a bitter hostility toward the pedantic." College students are tired of having knowledge interpreted to them wholly in terms of the classroom as something having little or no relation to life. The pedantic professor who treats facts as dry bones is tolerated by his classes with the same coldness as he himself radiates. Such a professor seems to have forgotten that all knowledge--science, philosophy, history, literature, religion--all had their origin...
Harvard has moved a step farther away from the theory that a man may become educated merely through passive exposure to education. The university has always avoided the rigid requirements set in the past by American colleges upon regular classroom attendance, but now a still larger measure of freedom is to be granted in Cambridge in this respect. Hereafter, not only honors men but all seniors in good standing may make even more liberal use of their own discretion in determining how many lectures or recitations they will attend, without being subjected to any disciplinary penalty unless they make gross...
...undertake largely upon his own initiative to wit, energetic collateral and "outside" reading, debate among his fellows, and direct learning from qualified preceptors. In short, American colleges and universities, many of which have recently taken steps similar to that now ordered at Harvard in relaxing the rigidity of classroom requirements, seem in general to be moving more and more toward the principles and concepts which prevail in the age-old universities of Great Britain and of the European Continent. --Boston Transcript...
...from the platform limits the possibilities of the lecturer, the tutor cannot go beyond what little he himself within a short space of time can tell each single man who comes to him. In a tutorial meeting there can be the informality, the spontaneity, the free discussion which a classroom lacks without the hampering, mechanical restrictions of an ordinary conference. the speaker who directs the meeting,--perhaps he is a different individual each time, the present in considerable detail a thesis which challenges dispute. In the give and take of the discussion which ensues, the instructor becomes a real individual...