Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your article on the crisis over ROTC [March 7] put the matter squarely in focus. The military has become the scapegoat for many of our social ills. And the converse is true: our present military system has been virtually absolved in areas where it has perpetrated the most vicious harm-notably, conscription...
...Monday. What matters is the nature of attention and its object. I think it highly likely that the attention directed to the proceedings in Lowell Lec was that sort which is attracted by novelty, is a short-lived attribute. But I can't conclude therefrom that the Collins system has no value other than novelty...
...turned then to a consideration of the educational results of the two classroom systems.. There seems to be a general rule, which was reaffirmed by Monday's events, that in an unstructured group of this size (200+) only the loud, quick-reaction people are able to interpose their views. A quick reaction is of necessity a shallow, one-dimensional reaction. Furthermore, once interruption is admitted and allowed, no speaker is about to develop an idea (support it solidly and investigate its implications), but instead must compress his thought into slogan. Thus depth is sacrificed by the Collins system...
...less common that his investigation is multidimensional (i.e., that he indicates the "relevance" of the subject to various other fields, ideological systems, and so on), which is too bad. But this is the realm in which the auditor of the lecture is asked to think for himself, and with which he is made competent to deal by the matter of the lecture and by his prior knowledge (hopefully he has prior knowledge of the dimension he is interested in). "Les enragés" appear to think that if a student is sitting silent, heavy-lidded, and impassive, then...
...Government Department is considering a plan to improve the way it grades students taking junior tutorial, but its proposal overlooks the fundamental problems in the grading system...