Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Considerable extension of the case method of study at the School of Public Administration will come within the next three years as the result of the Carnegie Corporation's recent $100,000 research award to Harvard, Princeton, Council, and Syracuse, Merle Falused professor of Government, disclosed last night...
Although the University's Public Administration School already employs the case method on a small scale, the Carnegie-financed study will "greatly augment the body of available material and will cover many more situations," Professor Fainsod declared...
...operate, use, or condone the use of the tutoring school. The thought is that if Harvard College sets up certain criteria of what is to be learned, namely examinations, and does not dogmatically prescribe how these things are to be learned, there is nothing immoral about utilizing the easiest method of learning them. They can point out, and rightly, that getting an education is not the same thing as playing a football game--the purpose is not primarily competitive and therefore "rules of the game" are slightly ridiculous. Education is supposed to be an instrument of success living, economically...
There is a certain amount of truth in this rebuttal, but the whole truth is that many, if not all students use essentially the tutoring school method of approaching examinations. They cram, they use outlines, they borrow their friends' reading notes, they look up old exams in order to spot questions, and they skim frantically over the reading at the eleventh hour. That they are not so successful as professionals in these methods merely indicates that they haven't the scientific approach of the professionals, not that they find the methods morally reprehensible. It can be argued that when...
...Malicious Childhood. Eisenstein developed a theory to explain these unfortunate deviations toward bourgeois art. They were, said he, tag ends of ideas and impressions left over from pre-revolutionary childhood. Eisenstein's sage advice to Soviet artists: "We must master the Lenin-Stalin method of perception . . . to overcome all remnants or survivals of former notions which . . . are obstinately and maliciously attempting to infiltrate into our works as soon as our creative vigilance is weakened even for only a single moment...