Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today's students too tightly chained to the textbook and the lecture, too little prodded into original work? Charles Odegaard, dean of the College of Literature. Science and the Arts at the University of Michigan, felt that the answer, when he wrote a special letter to some top members of his faculty in 1955, was yes. "There is a constant threat," he warned his readers, "that our educational practices will be dictated by the lowest common denominator...
...college education is supposed to teach a student to think, but does the U.S. college succeed in teaching him to think for himself? Not nearly enough, says Dartmouth's Dean of Faculty Arthur E. Jensen. "Normally, the student goes through college with two crutches: the professor and the textbook. When he graduates, he sometimes stops his education because he no longer has those crutches." Last week, after two years of study, the Dartmouth faculty approved a series of reforms that it hopes will change all that. Chief proposals...
...Textbook. In Havant, England, the local Road Safety Council announced that it had available a copy of the British Highway Code in Braille...
This sweeping change in the academic curriculum, affecting all students, aims for "less dependence upon teaching" and more "independence in learning," President John S. Dickey said yesterday. The new system will shift the emphasis from conventional textbook and classroom to source work and library study...
...Such textbook faults would have been fatal at the National Field Trial Championships for bird dogs, a test that encourages professional handlers and emphasizes flawless technique.* The annual National Shooting Dog Championship is different-a competition among dogs that earn their keep by hunting, not performing. So spectators and judges alike look first to see how a dog performs the basic job of finding birds before worrying about his style and etiquette. Because it sticks to this practical approach and limits dog handlers to amateurs, the eight-year-old championship has become the nation's best test...