Word: snedden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summary: HARVARD 1937 B.U. 1937 White, Boning, r.f. r.f., Snedden Moser, Boning, Stephenson, l.f. l.f., Luiz, Murphy Gray, Field, c. c., Sullivan, Skoler, Rabinowitz Gibson, Monroe, Witherspoon, r.g. r.g., Maddocks Mason, Monroe, Lewis, Shuler, l.g. l.g., Nathan...
That children should be sent to school -nursery school or kindergarten-as early as the fourth or fifth year, is a theory held by many U. S. educators. Dissent came last week from Dr. David Snedden, professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University. The ninth or tenth year, said he, is soon enough, save for children from economically and socially unsuitable homes. For children on farms, in villages and suburbs, in all but the largest cities, there is environment favorable to natural, wholesome growth. Let such children play until they are 10; intellectual and social development can come later...
...article of Dr. Snedden appearing in today's CRIMSON on the question of college entrance brings out a new element of this problem in advocating that the secondary school should confine its efforts to providing an education that does not need to be supplemented by four years at college. According to this belief, it is not for the preparatory school to attempt to meet the requirements of the college, but, to the contrary, it is the duty of the college to fashion its methods after the dictates of the secondary school...
...second point that Dr. Snedden brings out is the fact that the College Entrance Board Examinations are extremely inefficient. In their stead he proposes to substitute psychological tests and secondary school records, both methods of judging college candidates that have proven highly successful...
...danger is, however, that in attempting to avoid this evil by relying on the preparatory school to provide a sound background without the scourge of the College Boards, the matter of the varying quality of the various secondary schools is neglected. And in addition to this, under Dr. Snedden's plan the requirements of individual colleges are given no consideration. The result of this would be that the college instead of the preparatory school would be forced to confine itself to stereotyped education. But Dr. Snedden is obviously looking forward to the time when the preparatory school can and will...