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...Inglis Lecture for 1932, by William Setchel Learned, Ph.D. '12, of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, is a remarkable little volume, which may well prove to be of much more than passing significance as a good piece of work in an interesting series. What the volume advocates would be radical, even at Harvard, where the principle involved has been recognized ever since President Lowell introduced the general examination. If it can be put into a word, it is the active abandonment of courses and marks in courses as the ground-plan of an education in school...
...credit" system is the object of a particularly pointed attack by Dr. William Setchel Learned of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in a paper on "The Quality of the Educational Process in the United States and in Europe" in the Foundation's current bulletin. Dr. Learned contrasts the disciplined convergence upon a single field, in European scholarship, with the dissipation of energy and attention permitted in U. S. classrooms, where Humorist Stephen Leacock pretended to find a student "taking Turkish, music and architecture not because he meant to be choirmaster in a Turkish cathedral but because...
...real apology for the "Kultur" of Germany lies, not in her military operations, but, perhaps more than anything else, in what she has done in her secondary schools, according to Dr. William Setchel Learned's work on the "Oberlehrer." Written before the outbreak of the war, it is the first account in English of the position of the secondary school-teacher. This book gives an excellent idea of the patient work and the high ideals of this generally over-looked part of German educational machinery...
...first of the "Harvard Studies in Education," called "The Oberlehrer," is also announced by the Press. It consists of a study of the evolution of the German Schoolmaster by William Setchel Learned, Ph.D., of the Carnegie Foundation. The series aims to include books of political usefulness to teachers, school officers, and others who are trying to win intelligent control over the complex problems of American education...
Among the books scheduled for immediate publication are the succeeding volumes of Professor Wambaugh's "Constitutional Law;" "The Secondary Teacher in Germany," by William Setchel Learned, of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; "Preservatives for Food: Their Use and Abuse," by Otto Folin. Hamilton Kuhn Professor of Biological Chemistry and "Scientific Management," a collection of the most significant papers ever written on this subject, by Clarence Bertrand Thompson '08, instructor in Industrial Organization...