Word: surveyals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could acquire an education in a gentlemanly manner. At Harvard, so the generalization runs, there is no attempt at prep-schoolish supervision of students... Suddenly this happy picture is rudely shattered for us by an announcement by the Harvard History Department that henceforth students in History 1, a large survey course, will have their lecture and reading notes subjected to periodic scrutiny...
...Survey Graphic, "magazine of social interpretation," thus keynoted "the challenge of democracy to education" in its October issue last week. Survey Graphic last February began an attempt to arouse sluggish U. S. democrats with a trumpeting series entitled "Calling America." Because it believes that "democracy begins in the cradle," the magazine devoted its entire October issue to an appraisal of the U. S. educational system, by 31 famed educators and journalists...
Question before the house was whether democracy's schools are a match for dictatorship's. Panic-stricken by the dictatorships' single-track efficiency in grinding out Nazis, Communists who know just what is expected of them, most of Survey Graphic's experts gloomily concluded that democracy's schools are not at the moment prepared to meet the competition. Because U. S. schools (like the U. S. people) do not pretend to know all the answers, these experts proposed that what U. S. Education needs is a big blue print...
Against these liabilities, Survey Graphic's experts balanced hopeful assets...
...doctor the schools' failings, Survey Graphic'?, experts proposed many remedies, from Federal financial aid to more science in education. Most practical was Columbia University's Professor Karl N. Llewellyn, who suggested that educators find mass-production formulas that even mediocre teachers can use. Sample formula (to promote healthy skepticism): Let pupils be taught from the kindergarten to preface every "fact" thus: "My geography book says that Albany is the capital of New York"; "Mr. Smithers says that stealing is naughty"; "The Bugle says Japan is a menace"; "Candidate Loud says that Senator Louder is a liar...