Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supposed to locate the able students, and by rewarding them with high academic achievement, channel them into higher education and bring them to responsible positions. Unfortunately, this process too often fails, because many students, especially those from uneducated or lower class families, do not show their abilities in the classroom...
...order to solve the problem, educators must either adjust the classroom situation to stimulate the currently unmotivated, or adjust the student to the classroom situation. The major efforts have recently been concentrated on spotting the able students. If he can be found, and both he and his family made aware of his potential, he can often be induced to produce where he was formerly apathetic...
...dorm. The Planning Department, for example, has painted full-sized figures on the walls to brighten up its drawing room, and the Architecture Department even kept a pet man-eating fish until the S.P.C.A. removed it. Occasionally one finds groceries or a radio on the desks indicating that the classroom is more than a place of study...
While ignoring the trend may appear ludicrous, it is all too natural. The tendency to call Harvard an educational institution and let education end at the classroom door is strong, especially when a partial solution for undergraduates has been found in the House system...
...ugliest man alive. "Oldie," as the boys dubbed him, was the half-insane master of a decrepit boarding school, "a big, bearded man with full lips like an Assyrian king on a monument, immensely strong, physically dirty." Smacking his lips after breakfast. Oldie would gaze round the classroom, pick the day's victim: "Oh, there you are, Rees. you horrid boy. If I'm not too tired, I shall give you a good drubbing this afternoon." When he could, Lewis would withdraw to an oasis of private joy-books, nature and the music of Richard Wagner...