Word: rhinelandere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contrary to the feeling of the Student Council, which thought that "the attainments of G.E.'s basic aims cannot be said to be very great," Rhinelander thinks that the effect of the study is in general "favorable." He added that although it is really too early to evaluate the overall...
Rhinelander differs most strongly with the Council's interpretation in the matter of student opinion on the general aims of General Education.
Rhinelander thinks that this data does not quite justify the conclusion that G.E. is unsuccessful because students think that they are survey courses. He points out that the important result is not that 34 percent picked the aims of a survey course, but that 65 percent--the aggregate of the...
Rhinelander commented that the fact that students didn't agreed that any fact single one of the legitimate objectives were pre- dominant was a "healthy sign," if they had agreed it would have indicated that the other aims were being slighted.
Rhinelander also questions the Council's recommendation that G.E. courses limit reading and stick to fewer authors and topics. "I am not convinced that reading a few authors a great deal is better than reading a smaller amount of many authors," he said. He pointed out that a topic is...