Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many good men. One of the "greats," Professor Packard, teaches the only remaining lecture course ("European Civilization") in the freshman-sophomore curriculum. Most of the good men--including professors--prefer to take one of the small sections in the basic course pertaining to their field. For at Amherst the method of teaching is that of intimate student-teacher contact through small always under 25 classes. In English J-2, for instance, every associate professor in the English department must teach a section. Although Amherst might not have enough money to hire only "great men," it certainly does have enough money...
Representing philosophy as an approach to reality, Charles L. Stevenson, visiting professor of Philosophy, attacked the Cartesian method of suspended judgment...
...talking about Bard it would be unfair to take Harvard's standards and Harvard's aims, measure up Bard against these, and decide that it was quite deficient. Bard has quite particular goals and a unique but deliberate method of education. Ultimately, while one should keep in mind general educational aims, Bard must be judged by its own standards...
Students are initiated into the Bard discusion-seminar method of education through what is called the "Common Course." This is a sort of natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities course rolled into one. President James H. Case, Jr., Princeton '29, describes the purpose of the Common Course as "to catch these people before they know any better and to work their tails off." According to Case the educational process at Bard starts when the student develops a significant question. The role of the teacher at this point is to needle the student into making the necessary effort to work...
...main modification of the present educational system at Bard in mind at present is a possible synthesis or evaluation of the college education during the senior year. To Case, this brings up a considerable problem in the indefiniteness of his task and of the Bard method in general. "Golly," he exclaims, "How the hell can you measure an education?" Notwithstanding this, he says that Bard will probably begin to use graduate record examinations as one of many tests to evaluate students' work; he does not, however, expect Bard students to fare particularly well in the exams...