Word: recitatione
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These are radical measures--especially the measure that prohibits recitations. But--frankly, seriously--why is a recitation? Why indeed? If anything is to be taught, the student should question the teacher, not the teacher the student. The time when the student needs a teacher is not after he has got...
Besides, the recitation is too commonly a rather farcial affair, and, as a recent writer puts it, Rollins College has "wanted to get away from the method under which the class room becomes a sort of criminal court, where the teacher--as judge, prosecutor, and detective--attempts to find out...
In point of stupidity, the usual college lecture ranks next to the recitation. Lecturers are rare, particularly among lecturers, just as teachers are rare particularly among teachers. To staff a college with teachers who can teach is difficult enough. To staff a college with teachers who can teach by lecturing...
I suppose that my low opinion of the recitation system and the lecture system is a result chiefly of my experience with them both in my student days, but the impression then made was reinforced later on by my experience as a journalist, and a journalist is a student, habitually...
How, then, was the journalist's method to be introduced in a college? At Harvard, you have introduced it, though to a very limited extent, by establishing the Reading Period. At Rollins we have made it the one and only method by establishing what we call the two-hours conference...