Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When asked for biographical details, Irving Fine replies, "I've been at Harvard for a long time." But there is more to his story than that. Teacher, composer, conductor, performer, and critic, Fine is a complete musician...
...came to the University as an undergraduate in 1933 and, with a few breaks, has been here since. In 1938 he studied in New York with Nadia Boulanger, the famous French teacher, and followed her back to Paris for the summer of '39. With the out-break of the war, he returned to Harvard to become a teaching fellow in the Music Department...
...Committee said its polls of student opinion showed great dissatisfaction with the lecture system. "It is by definition a one-way process," the report states, whose "one justification . . . is that it permits many students to come under the spell . . . of a great teacher...
...Student as his own teacher...
...Lectures: "The inadequacy of the lecture is that, of itself, it cannot provide a two way communication between student and teacher . . . It is distressing to contemplate the fact that despite the universal dependence on the lecture system, the real keynote to education--learning to think, learning to read, and learning to work efficiently--are aims that are achieved less in the lectures than anywhere else...