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...professor could legimately forget his duty to education and responsibility to his students, then this defensive attitude might be justified. A senior who has spent many months on his thesis deserves the benefit of discussing it with the grader. And if the senior is unhappy about his grade, then the professor, who believes he has graded the senior fairly, should be more than glad to explain the mark and answer the student's questions as best...
Fortunately, some professors have recognized that the secrecy surrounding a thesis grade is unfair to the student and unworthy of a teacher. In History and Literature, the senior receives the names of his two graders, along with their grades and comments. In radical and somewhat guilty opposition to this realistic approach, are the other Departments. In Philosophy, no information is released "officially." A senior in Romance Languages writes his thesis, and then hears no more of it. The Classics Department "normally" gives back no grades and no information, while the departments of Government, History, and Economics give back the overall...
Ceiling Limited. In Arlington, Va., a first-grader entering the Washington Post's "Favorite Teacher" essay contest was full of praise for his Miss Davis, added with an eye on next year: "I wish she was smart enough to teach second grade...
...funds. Both schools require neat dress; the Brooklyn unit even insists on ties. In the classroom, the boys usually keep up a cocky, running banter with their teacher. But they can talk with the weariness of old age about their problems. "I'm a troublemaker," said one eighth grader. "I started everything that ever happened...
...applauding Teacher Gayle Graner [who paddled a card-playing fourth-grader, TIME, Feb. 10], Was it not a school system that insisted on the strictest possible discipline which mass-produced Hitler's hoodlums not so long...