Word: thought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...test of comprehension of material. Comprehension does not mean the ability to bounce back a list of facts or a memorized theory, but rather the ability to put the facts together or work the theory into a meaningful picture. How test this true comprehension? By requiring original thought based on the material, by requiring a variety of interpretations of the facts...
...those who tutor. The student who has honestly tried and still is not able to think with originality on an examination should--hard as this may seem--get a low grade anyway. All others are not affected, for the exams are not made harder, but only more thought-provoking...
...really have nothing in particular to say 'he began. (Flash! went a flashlight bulb.) I thought you might want to ask questions." (Flash! Flash...
Feild has stood for stimulating, thought-provoking teaching, and for a unified policy in a department that is groping in the past. But while the department has stood still, the world has moved forward to new techniques, new forms, new social forces. The recent establishment of a fellowship for the study of modern art is a hollow mockery when the one man that can save the department from its past must leave...
...rotting hulk aimlessly floating on a sea of meaningless and unrelated detail. The study of fine arts has become largely a matter of identifying pictures. This is fine for embryo museum experts. But when it comes to aiding undergraduates to relate fine arts to the life and thought of an epoch, particularly the epoch we are living in, the department is inadequate, barren, and moribund...