Word: learner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blinking Lights. In addition to traffic, British motorists face a horror largely unknown in the U.S.: the driver whose car displays, front and back, the big red L sign that stands for "learner." Disregarding double lines, painted arrows, blinking lights, rules of the road and the prospect of dismemberment and death, many L drivers whip past trucks on hills and blind curves, weave nonchalantly from lane to lane on the few big throughways. Picnicking on Sunday, drivers blithely leave their cars parked in the path of traffic. Last month 515 Britons died in traffic accidents; 23,277 were injured...
President Pusey has recently asserted that the job of the college teacher is "to awaken in the learner the resistless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning." It is difficult to do this in a lecture course; the Faculty has wisely realized that the best opportunity for awakening such a drive is in the close, personal contact between student and tutor found in a tutorial session, where the student is forced to think perceptively. But the Faculty has been curiously lax in extending the opportunity for such thinking to the non-Honors student...
Additional courses, though, will not alter the quality of the subjects already taught. Public high school courses are geared to the average student. At many schools, the gifted learner is placed in accelerated classes. Horace Mann has this accelerated program in algebra and plane geometry--an arrangement which might profitably be extended to other subjects...
Stanley, another Governor Dummer wrestler, was a New England Scholastic Champion in his weight class last year. Lee calls him a quick learner, whose main failing is his aggressiveness. He must learn to become a more conservative wrestler, especially when he is on top, Lee noted...
...experiment was conducted to find out whether "Herman-Teacher-Learner" would have to go through an astronomical number of methods or whether the machine had some judgment. The computer was found to "learn" from experience...