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Dates: during 1959-1959
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Sorbonne Philosophy Professor Jean Guitton rushed to the front page of Le Figaro to cry shame, because "the oral, properly understood, is a delicious moment." Guitton fondly recalled questions from his own orals ("Monsieur, what was the color of pigs in Homer's day?"), remembered his anti-French error of telling his examiners that brainy men complement each other ("No, Monsieur. When intelligences are united, they subtract from each other"). Warmly supporting Guitton in defense of the oral. Author Paul ( The Innocent Tenant) Guth wrote: "In a world more and more dedicated to the quantitative, the oral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oral Surgery | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

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