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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Francis Keppel '38, Dean of the Faculty of Education, emphasized that Skinners' teaching machines were proposed to add efficiency to the present educational system, not to solve the problem of teacher scarcity. Under Skinner's program, a teacher would handle the same number of pupils, he said...
...School of Education is co-operating completely in machine experimentation at the high school and primary school levels, Keppel said. Results so far have led to "optimistic concusions," indicating that machines "will undoubtedly be used as a helpful supplement to our present resources" in the future...
Leland hopes to be able to start his search for Council backers before the Program for Harvard College concludes its operations, although up to the present most requests of this nature have been turned down by Massachusetts Hall...
...considerable repression of human nature on the part of most students. To step out into the world after graduation with a four thousand dollar loan on one's shoulders is not a happy prospect, even if one has a life-time to pay it back. The loan, ever present, being reduced by a piddling sum each year, could turn into a hateful obligation fairly soon. Knowledge that the repayment is less than one per cent of total income will only prolong the indebtedness, not diminish...
...Grading systems would probably have to be greatly revised; the entire concept of education by coercion, motivation, threat and sweat would have to be reexamined; and the application of scientific principles to secondary education would have to be considered. Professor Skinner himself has said: "In the light of our present knowledge a school system must be called a failure if it cannot induce students to learn except by threatening them not to learn." A study of education within the structure of the modern science of behavior does indeed have broad implications...