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...education; they charge that the rigidity of Harvard's preclinical curriculum and its uncritical over-use of formal teaching methods, especially lectures, stunts intellectual initiative. "We now learn more because we are told to do so than because we are curious," they wrote in a letter to Dean Ebert in December. "It is disappointing to think that our education is based upon the assumption that medical students can learn no more than what they are taught...
...they will use a wide range of techniques -- directed reading; attendance of scheduled laboratories, lectures, and demonstrations; consultation with lecturers and other members of the faculty; and discussion within the groups. This program will provide a needed testing ground for new methods of instruction, particularly now that Dean Ebert's approval allows the experiment to take place in the "atmosphere of co-operation between faculty and students" which the students requested in their December letter...
Since the initial approval of the study, a few of the students have offered Ebert a proposal that would enable them to skip the unit tests in the course, taking an over-all comprehensive exam at the end of the year...
...Ebert has made no comment on the new proposals, but a spokesman for the group last night said that the chances seemed good for administrative approval...
...second-year students presented a letter of intent to Ebert, Freiman, and Dr. Alexander Leaf, chairman of the curriculum committee of the Medical School...