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...just come in with "young Potts"-Douglas Newton Potts, 19, a promising, first-year man, holder of an ?80 scholarship, leader of a Cambridge dance orchestra. As tutor and pupil entered, they were faced by Detective Sergeant Willis of the Cambridge Police, standing with his large feet well spaced on the hearthrug, as in all proper British crime dramas...
Without attempting to discuss the details of the curriculum study to which I have referred, I will only remark that we have first considered a six-year secondary curriculum sub-divided into two period characterized by somewhat different trends. The first three years are exploratory. The pupil is brought into touch with all the major fields of learning; but his attention is not confined to the acquisition of facts and disciplines to the neglect of the appreciative side of his personality. During the later years there is a gradual change of emphasis. The pupil has been led to try himself...
...fifteen carried in some schools (several even now have no more than thirteen) would afford sufficient hours for all the concentration that is desirable. It is much more a matter of organization of material within subject fields and of attitude on the part of teacher and pupil...
...there were any danger that further cooperation between pupil, school, and college would eliminate the difference in environment and attitude which distinguishes the college from the secondary school it would be detrimental. The positive value of such a change of viewpoint and mental "set" for the pupil is obvious. But we could eliminate this effect of the transition if we would. I believe that its benefits will be retained and some of its no less recognized difficulties, lessened if in matters curricular the relation between the last two years in the secondary school and the first years in college...
...individual attention commensurate with his potential development. But even if one subscribes to the belief that a college education is adapted only for an intellectual aristocracy, it makes a difference whether the 'aristocracy' is held to comprise the upper 10 percent or the upper 50 percent of the secondary pupils. On the supposition that the definition includes at least more than the former proportion we cannot escape consideration of the 'pupil) whose general capacity is only average. Of such a person superior attainments can be expected only in the field of concentration, and the secondary pupil can hardly concentrate...