Word: graders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...English literature classes, a statewide monthly brushup program for doctors, and a projected junior college TV program for evening students all over South Carolina. But the vital change is among schoolchildren, now getting a taste of expert teaching for the first time. For thousands of her classmates, one ninth-grader sunis up: "I've learned more this year than I did in the seventh and eighth grades put together...
...example, consider Epistemology 2043, whose enrollment used to hover around 200 in the good old days. Assuming that a week means six days of working time, Epistemology 2043's grader, assuming again that there was only one of him, had to complete about 40 examinations each day. If he could spend ten hours a day reading, he was left with eighteen minutes for each three-hour exam. This is not reassuring...
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)2-set. These people are mere cogs, automata; they simply feel to make sure you've 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 postcards. 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 well 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...
...above all, keep us entertained, keep us awake. Be bold, be personal, be witty, be chockfull-of-facts. I'm sure you can do it without studying if you try. We did. Best wishes, A GRADER...