Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very easy to spot a good "assistant," and also a poor one. In the first place, the good assistant knows his subject and can present it to his students in an intelligent way. In the second place, his attitude to his students is friendly. The poor "assistant" very often is so unable to teach that he completely conceals whatever knowledge he has of the subject. He gives the impression of knowing nothing whatsoever about it. He also gives the impression that he is out to "beat" the student in a little game that he wins if he can give...
...know how "assistants" are chosen, so I cannot offer any remedy for the system, but I can say that an assistant's position should not be the means of any graduate student working his way through for a Ph.D., nor should it be a position for any man who happens to want it who can flash a Phi Beta Kappa key. One does not have to be a scholar to be a teacher...
...assistant should be interested in his work as assistant, and too many of them are not. One of the secrets of teaching is to inspire and arouse the interest of the students; this is as much the assistant's job as it is the professor's because it is with the former, generally, with whom the student comes in closer contact...
...give better physical opportunity, everyone to lead a more comfortable and sane student life...
...give greater opportunity for the student to really know his tutor to educate himself outside as well as inside the classroom and to study because it interests...