Word: mayhew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of television plays, moved nearby 14 years ago. Unlike other outsiders, he found much more than birds and quiet. Akenfield is the absorbing result. It is remarkable both as literature-a kind of Suffolk Spoon River-and as a sociological report on a par with Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor, a journalistic study of poverty in 19th century Britain...
That euphoric vision of undergraduate education is put forward by Mayhew in Campus 1980 (Delacorte Press; $6.95), a collection of future-oriented essays by 17 U.S. educators. No romantic, Mayhew bases his predictions on trends already discernible. He believes that technology will help to bring about the new accent on the individual needs of students. National admissions centers will match students by computer with the college that best suits their interests, allow them to move freely from campus to campus. Short-range jets will enable professors to serve consortia of small colleges that agree to share faculty and facilities...
Accent on Impulse. Mayhew believes that the 1980 curriculum will accent the liberal arts, de-emphasize purely fact-oriented courses. It will also deal with the emotional development of students and what Mayhew terms their "impulse life," as well as with "the big, perplexing questions of mankind." Technical and vocational training will be discarded from the undergraduate curriculum; corporate employers will supply that in a modern version of the apprentice system. Not only will most U.S. students spend a year abroad, but their home campuses will become "as international in flavor as were the medieval universities of the 13th century...
...hurry to finish, will be able to drop out for a year or more of off-campus work. Some may take up to ten years to get a B.A. "There will be 14-and 15-year-old early entrants in classes with 30-and 40-year-old returnees," Mayhew predicts. "There will be young married couples, women whose children are full grown and men who, at the age of 50, will be seeking re-education to prepare for a second, third, fourth or even a fifth career-which can be for work, retirement or leisure...
...More Lock Step. There will also be more students than ever before. Mayhew argues that all educators will come to recognize that a balanced, liberal arts college education can be absorbed by and helpful to almost everyone, provided that the pressures of grading and lock-step progress are eased. Instead of flunking out, students will be able to stay with a subject until they master it. Mayhew may be overly sanguine in predicting that by 1980 "parents will have accepted the fact that childhood or youth will have extended to 30 to 35 years of age." But with increased life...