Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Classes such as headline writing, photography, classroom bulletin boards, pottery, jewelry, ballroom dancing, golf, horseback riding and-hang on to your hat-family planning and marital relations seem hardly more academic than "military staff operations...
There are two heckling debates each term as part of the course work for English N, Irving J. Rein, lecturer in Public Speaking, said. He added that the debates give students a chance to respond to a live audience outside the classroom, "The emphasis is on humor--this is not a study thing," he added...
...turned then to a consideration of the educational results of the two classroom systems.. There seems to be a general rule, which was reaffirmed by Monday's events, that in an unstructured group of this size (200+) only the loud, quick-reaction people are able to interpose their views. A quick reaction is of necessity a shallow, one-dimensional reaction. Furthermore, once interruption is admitted and allowed, no speaker is about to develop an idea (support it solidly and investigate its implications), but instead must compress his thought into slogan. Thus depth is sacrificed by the Collins system...
Structure of Classroom Social Relations...
...fear of jeopardizing their grades, and in part because the process of grading has diverted attention away from learning itself. (We do not raise here the possibility the grades inspire political conformity between students and professors.) In general, the authoritarian relationship between teachers and students in a classroom is inimical to learning, and for this reason too we oppose grades...