Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...method of his teaching, as it lives in my own memory, seems to me to have been more like a catch-as-catch-can wrestling match than like ordinary instruction. What happened was that you were summoned to his chambers in Hollis and told to bring with you your manuscript. You were told how to read what you had written. Soon you began to feel that out of the darkness all around you long fingers were searching through the layers of fat and fluff to find your bones and muscles underneath. You could fight back but eventually he stripped...
...inimitable. And yet, if I understand the new system which has revolutionized the method of instruction since I was at Harvard, Copey was one of its pioneers. Thirty years ago he was already acting on the assumption that teaching is not the handing down of knowledge from a platform to an anonymous mass of note-takers, but that it is the personal encounter of two individuals. Those appalling clinches in Hollis, those dreaded exposures in the class room, the searching intimacy from which all protection was removed, were in fact a continuing demonstration against mass instruction and the regimentation...
...indeed difficult to suggest any infallible panacea. Some professors have adopted a policy of allowing questions during the lectures or at some stipulated periods. In other courses the nature of the subject permits cooperative treatment analagous to the case method. Whatever the system adopted, it is essential that professors should provide some means whereby the student can secure satisfactory answers to questions arising over the material of the course...
...public schools have tended toward more teaching--that is, more of direct imparting of knowledge--higher education has tended toward the other and slower procedure. For example, instead of the older practice of lectures and reading text-books, the law schools began sixty years ago to use the case method of instruction--much slower so far as the bare learning of legal principles by sheer memory is concerned, but much more effective in teaching law students to think. And the system has spread from school to school until it has now been adopted almost everywhere in America...
...this consideration, there are three general steps to be taken, and two of them are still untouched. First, a satisfactory method of recording must be developed, preferably one which will be practicable in the field. Secondly, there must be found a way of measuring and expressing the actual color values of the plates. This problem is still unsolved...