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...students who flunk out "are certainly not dumbbells," said Bender. "They are often very useful, fine, intelligent people, who have a problem adjusting to the Harvard environment." He pointed out that the seven per cent drop is "only one class--an isolated situation, not a trend...
Opportunity to Flunk. Hechinger's carefully drawn comparison between the present U.S. and Soviet school systems shows flaws in each. For all Russia's talk of mass education. Soviet schools-at least the sort to which visiting educators are taken-are planned for an elite class of students. In recent years only about 12% of Soviet students have graduated from the nation's ten-year (college prep) schools. And when Premier Khrushchev's learning-and-labor edict (TIME, Jan. 5) takes effect, the proportion probably will drop. In the U.S. 55% of the children who begin...
...Russian students who escape the frequent opportunities to flunk, the ten-year school can be an efficient factory of learning. Children start when they are seven, go through only four years of elementary school. The next year-their fifth-they begin a stiff, six-day-a-week secondary school program. By the time a Russian child reaches the eighth year, he is assumed to have a thorough knowledge of grammar-a subject most U.S colleges find it necessary to pound into freshmen. By graduation, he has studied one foreign language for six years, has been exposed to 4½ years...
...Binding. In Manhattan, a delivery truck of Barnes & Noble, Inc., publishers of school and college textbooks, has the word PASS painted in large letters on the left side of its tail gate, the word FLUNK on the right...
Another Senior Tutor, Stewart, says, "My feeling is that anybody who really doesn't feel he should be here, should leave, except if he wants to leave because he thinks he's going to flunk the course. My feeling is that leaving is like constructing a building--often you must go back to get materials to complete the structure, a background to finish college...