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...takes a good, solid knowledge of the material to juggle it around dexterously. It requires mulling over and assimilating beforehand. The man who has spent a few nightmare hours cramming at Parker-Cramer's knows most of the essential facts. He has even had a stock interpretation of the facts handed down to him. But he cannot twist this interpretation around to answer questions shot from unexpected angles. So he resorts to building a weak bridge from the question to his stock answer, and then proceeds to pour out what he has memorized. In effect he evades the question...
...tutoring schools have been reaping a good income by spotting passages or French students. According to reports, the most active offender is William Sharpe of Parker-Cramer tutors, who has also been spotting sight passages for other tutoring schools for the fast few years...
...really advantageous to the student. Regardless of how useless a review--consisting of oversimplified digests of lecture notes--may be, persuasive advertisements make him imagine that actual benefit can be had. This situation would exist even under a system of perfect examinations. In printing an advertisement of a parker-Cramer review, the Progressive is helping to foster the exaggerated demand for spoon-fed education...
...Percentage of those tutoring who use only prepared notes 54 % Percentage of those tutoring who use only oral reviews 31 % Percentage of those tutoring who use both reviews and notes 15 % % tutored by C.T.B. & U.T. 38% % tutored by Fairfax 25% % tutored by Wolff 16% % tutored by Parker-Cramer 14% % tutored by Manter Hall 5% % tutored by all others...
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...