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...Singer, a small earnest man who flutters and squirms as he talks, still wears his Harvard disguise: flannels, grimy white shoes, nipped-in tweed jacket, and an approximation of the "whiffle hair-cut". He carries a text-book and loose-leaf notebook...
...gives a wealth of intimate detail and ancedetal background. The story is not propaganda although it employs the pattern of a five-year plan epic and tires unsuccessfully to show how the new motivations of communism will replace the material motives of capitalism. The story is neither novel or text-book but has its value in its, wide scene and pictorial power...
...Plow to Read is intended for a text-book and ought to be in use. It wd. debunk 80% of the idiocy in teaching literature in high-schools and colleges and 81 and one-fourth percent of literary journalists. Literary teaching and criticism ought to get the best stuff to the reader with the least interposition of second-hand yawp. crit/ic
That lecture courses need the added stimulus of class discussions there can be little doubt. In some courses the student's interest is systematically deadened by an atavistic throwback to the days before printing when lectures necessarily fulfilled the functions of text-books. Even when professors are careful to present something more than standard text-book material, their courses are likely to lack vitality. There is an inevitable tendency toward that familiar process, the transfer of information from the teacher's to the student's notebook without passing through the head of either. The greatest influence on that tendency...
...subject under consideration-- in which case the mechanical operation of taking notes distracts attention to the extent of counteracting that ideal; or else the lecture is a more runningfire of lifeless facts, and hence a use of time which might better be spent in the reading of some reliable text-book. Naturally, a lecture must embody the elemental facts of its subject, but these facts should be presented in correlation, not in compilation. Anyone who has listened as an outsider to such justly famous lectures as those in History 201-2 or Architecture 201-2, and has afterwards enrolled...