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Life would be richer, students of aging agree, if a wider repertory of activities were encouraged throughout life. Almost everyone now marches together in a sort of lockstep. They spend years in school, years at work and years in retirement. Youth might well work more, the middle-aged play more, and the older person go back to school. Former HEW Secretary John Gardner wants to see "midcareer clinics to which men and women can go to re-examine the goals of their working lives and consider changes of direction. I would like to see people visit such clinics with...
...must transfer more initiative for reform to local and community groups. Aggrieved individuals can more easily approach a local agency governing education, poverty, or law enforcement. More important, an agency with first-hand knowledge of a city can deal more efficiently and wisely with its problems than can lockstep reform from Washington. New Haven's enlightened urban renewal, for example, has been slowed down by the legislative morass of Federal aid programs. Goodwin wants to establish minimum Federal standards to prevent abuse, but then, give money to the cities and let them work...
Changes have been made in medical education since Flexner's time, although few schools have been able to escape the lockstep which he describes so vividly. But most medical schools continue to make certain basic assumptions which govern the teaching of medicine. The first assumption is that everyone should have essentially the same educational experience, regardless of interest, background, aptitude or ultimate choice of career within medicine. The second assumption is that some exposure to every held of medicine is desirable. It is universally accepted that it is impossible "to cover" all medical knowledge in medical school, but each specialty...
...There must be a recognition of individual aptitude and individual differences. Quite different kinds of people can contribute to medicine, and it is reasonable to assume that they will learn different things at different rates. The rigid lockstep system of American medical education must be broken if individual aptitudes are to be fostered...
Speaking to an audience of 200 in Room 18, 2 Divinity Ave., Mrs. Bunting encouraged teachers to "free students from the lockstep of current educational patterns...