Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Textbooks," Skinner remarked, "are of little help in preparing a program. They are usually not logical or developmental arrangements of material but strategems which the authors have found successful under existing classroom conditions. The examples they give are more often chosen to hold the student's interest than to clarify terms and principles. In composing material for the machine, the programmer may go directly to the point...
...into beer and cheer sessions, where the tutors is "one of the boys" and becomes less responsible. There are some defenders of House privacy who argue that a breezy informality is a necessary prerequisite of learning, but the weight of evidence would indicate that the tutorial meeting, like the classroom, does not suffer when girls are admitted...
Known primarily as classroom teacher, Mendenhall is not a prolific publisher. One of his big contributions to Yale's history department: development (along with his colleagues) of the "problem method," which stresses use of original sources instead of historical texts. Sample Mendenhall problem, fed to one class of freshmen: was the famous mot de Cam-bronne that French General Pierre Cam-bronne uttered near the end of the Battle of Waterloo really "The old guard dies, but never surrenders"-or was it simply "Merde!"? The frosh dutifully turned up evidence to back both mots...
...beginning of this week, breathless or not, Allen's to-be-continued series had made some solid points: ¶ "Many students there don't have the emotional stability, the mental capacity or the desire for academic learning." ¶ "Much of the classroom instruction is a farce, based on a philosophy that aims at 'just keeping them quiet.' " ¶"There is open defiance in the classrooms . . . Teacher morale is low . . . Teachers have been threatened with physical violence by students." ¶Most telling point: "The training in education I was required to take for my New York City...
Although one professor noted, "The fellows seem to be intrigued with the idea" of women in the classroom, the impression of most observers is that the students are more apathetic than intrigued. The case was admittedly slightly different two years ago when their reaction was one of hostility to the suggestion of Arthur Howe, Jr., Dean of Admissions, that the College consider accepting women. The protests against co-education were so vociferous that President A. Whitney Griswold felt obliged to state that "there is not the remotest possibility of its taking place at Yale," in the near future...