Word: experimentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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As soon as the insane stumble and jitter onstage with their dreadfully absent eyes, their bodily tics, their slavering mouths, their heads lolling like half-decapitated flowers, it is clear that the asylum keeper of the evening is Director Peter Brook. Abetted by the superbly disciplined Royal Shakespeare Company, Brook...
...Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Faculty of Medicine, has accepted the experimental program of independent study presented last month by a group of second-year medical students. The experiment will allow selected students to determine their own study in the patho-physiology course that occupies 75 per cent of the second-year students' second semester...
In an interview last night, Dr. David G. Freiman, head of the patho-physiology course, acknowledged that Ebert told the students who had proposed the program he was willing to try the experiment next semester. However, Ebert was unavailable for comment.
Several members of the group felt the success of the limited experiment would effect significant changes in the current teaching methods in the Med School.
They decried the current passive teaching methods of lecture and laboratory. They felt that medical students "learn more because we are told to than because we are curious." The letter proposed independent study as an experiment in "active learning" directed by the student.