Word: scholasticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many students drop out of honors not merely because of mere laziness or incompetence; they rebel at the increasing specialization some departments require and in general would like an academic framework which leaves more time for general reading or study. The CEP proposals have tended to produce a polarization of...
Hard-Working Parrots. But the flaws in the Russian system are huge. Dogma is injected into almost all subjects. Teachers may be scholars, but they are expected to follow rigid syllabuses, have far less freedom to interpret their subjects than U.S. instructors. Rote learning, abhorred by some U.S. educators, is...
The study also found that the "ideal" college was co-educational and had a national reputation, an outstanding faculty and high scholastic standards. A majority of parents preferred colleges to be small, private, and without religious affiliations.
Tall Story (by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse) hinges on that old story of campus comedy, the Big Game in Jeopardy. According to its boosters, Custer College has "higher scholastic standards, a better basketball team, and a lower rate of pregnancy" than any little coed college in the Midwest. The...
To a great extent the curriculum reforms have been aimed at exploiting this greater scholastic potential. But it seems that this exploitation is resulting in the over-academization of the undergraduate community and in the sacrifice of non-academic systems of values.