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...rocking bed to breathe; a deaf girl who finds that she can easily read her professors' lips on TV; a blind woman of 55 who tape-records each lecture, plays it back to herself until she has mastered it. Says she: "I don't care if I flunk. These courses are giving me something I was starved for-intellectual intercourse. I have contact with these people...
What's a Ghetto? In the past few years, as more and more Orientals flounder, flunk and repeat, some European parents have begun demanding separate schools for them. "The Oriental child." says
...petits mentaux often become les grands mentaux at exam time. By U.S. or any other standards, French exams are among the world's most exacting. Many students suffer "exam collapse" and (in extreme cases) "exam psychosis." Although students who flunk can try again a half-year later, they see a first failure as a personal humiliation. To an alarming extent, students use stimulating drugs to keep themselves going through their final swotting: sales of Maxiton (an amphetamine) zoom from 10,000 boxes a month to 120,000 during the May-July exam season and university authorities have issued posters...
...After all," he adds, "two or three were turned down for every one accepted, and the flunk-out rate last year was less than two percent. If they just learn to plan on a long-range basis, they'll do all right. It's at the beginning of the year, when the professor says 'read these books, and write these papers, and take these exams, and good luck'--it's then that the student may feel swamped...
...this blurb, the colleges put out a volume of factual description. How many students of what sex, geographic distribution, economic resources, post-graduation intentions, and ability does a college have? Does the college allow cars, women, drinking, fraternities? How big are classes, what are the academic demands, how many flunk...