Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difficult for you to find a comforting answer to this question," he declared. "It is not for us who are in your government to set forth a pattern and a concrete purpose for your lives...
...traditional pattern of course work--postponing the student's contribution to his learning until the term is nearly ended--implicitly denies what all students know from their experience: education functions best as a dialogue, a running conversation between student and teacher in which both are actively engaged in the same material at the same time. Education fails and apathy sets in when this dialogue breaks down. Why copy down the lecturer's critical responses to "The Wasteland" before you have read the poem, before you have your own responses to measure his against? And of what satisfaction to the teacher...
...College's course of conduct is complicated by several factors. Many men and some women are quick to object to incorporating Radcliffe within Harvard, arguing that men's and women's educational goals are different. As Mrs. Bunting sees it, "Women must pattern their lives differently from men, but with a little ingenuity on the part of society, including educational institutions, the logistics can be accomplished. Differences in pattern need not dictate differences in purpose." Yet clearly a woman's college, as such, is better equipped to provide the requisite pattern of train1
After a year or two, the student who has succumbed to his suicidal drives has established a pattern of avoiding his work. He may begin each term with a firm resolution to work and proceed to kill the semester reading irrelevant books, writing, painting, working on drama, playing the guitar, or just hanging around the Bick. A few days of agonizing cramming, and perhaps his grades are high enough to allow him to continue...
...programs, the new Radcliffe Institute, our provisions for independent and foreign study, our occasional acceptance of transfer students, and our sanctioning of undergraduate leaves of absence are among significant exceptions: they signify by the exceptional character we have given them our unconscious commitment, by and large, to an inflexible pattern which since the gates were erected around the Yard has not significantly changed...