Word: cramer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost equally bad are the mass reviews upon which the businesses of Wolff and Parker-Cramer are based. As a means to real education, these are a farce. They consist, for the most part, in skillful spotting of examinations and cramming of answers. Students emerge merely with high-lights of information--which is necessarily superficial, which they do not understand, which they have not assimilated. The most important part of study, organization of the material, is completely absent. Thus the essence of education-mastery in the methodology of thought--is taken out. Students do not think; their thinking is done...
...statement from Wolff came as a telegram suggesting that the CRIMSON consider the "herding' practice of some schools. Simultaneously Cramer gave the following defense to the Metropolitan papers anonymously...
Attacking "publicity-conscious tutors" and "certain malodorous practices," Cramer welcomed the CRIMSON'S stand and said that true "tutoring is a professional work which supplements the instruction given in formal institutions of learning...
Wolff retaliated by condemning "tutoring schools herding people into obscure snap courses." This statement follows a tip he gave to the CRIMSON last February, when he pointed out that students, prompted by Parker-Cramer, take Chinese 10, History 13, and Geography...
...result of Wolff's tip, the CRIMSON treated these three courses as "snaps" in an article February 8. Like Cramer, Wolff maintains that tutoring should supplement and coordinate University courses. Neither tutor feels that his rival conforms to this standard...