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...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader; although I think I should prefer the word "impressing". We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson--reading graders (there are a few, and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
Think, Mr. Carswell (wherever you are), think, all of you: imagine the situation of your grader. (Unless, of course he is of the Wheatstone Bridge-double differential CH3C6H2 (NO2)3 set. These people are more cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd" What force?" What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless, "nonsense", on the one hand; "doubtless", "obvious", "unquestionable" on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching...
...Harvard examinations system is designed, according to its promulgators to test two specific things, knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Mem approaching the examination, problem have three choices: 1. flunking out, 2. doing work, or 3. working out some system of fooling the grader. The first, choice of solution is too permanent and the second takes too long...
Among the first to speak out strongly in the classroom was Uncle Harry, who came to life in 1978 in a model program titled the Child Assault Prevention Project (CAP); it was Iput together by a fledgling group on shoestring grants for schools in Columbus after a local second-grader was raped. The heart of the CAP program, and others that have followed or paralleled it, is a series of playlets | designed so that children and leaders can handle the roles and then talk out the tricky nuances of abuse. For the youngest children, rag dolls are used as stand...