Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often been remarked that the important thing in education is not the doctrine taught but the awakening of the student. The tutorial system is a recognition of this truth. The most important benefit conferred by the direct contact between a student and a tutor is just this: that the student may receive a new stimulus to intellectual development and respond to it by what is truly an awakening of his more or less dormant powers. The tutorial system not only is a powerful instrument for effecting such a transformation, but is helping to bring it about earlier in the student...
...adage has not yet been proved false that the best method of education is to sit at the feet of the wise. And young tutors, whatever else they may be, are rarely wise in the old meaning of the word. A young tutor may be scholarly. He may be brilliant. He may have that fine enthusiasm which dazzles and captivates. But he lacks experience, the experience which comes from long contact with the world, and which mellows knowledge into wisdom...
When the student is once awakened, then more than ever he needs guidance by a mature mind. Then the services of professors as tutors become more than desirable. The Department of Mathematics, the most recent to adopt the tutorial system, has, in recognizing this problem, surpassed the other departments by providing that each professor shall also be a tutor. It is to be hoped that this provision will soon be universal. Only by such cooperation of tutors and professors will the tutorial system achieve its greatest usefulness...
YOUNG WOODLEY-The trials of an English schoolboy who fell in love with his tutor's wife...
...between master and pupil; and the resourses that lie in contact between students dealing in the same fields have been neglected to some extent, although the example of European universities proves that, properly directed, such contacts are as fertile as any between the student and even the most sympathetic tutor. The group meetings in which overworked tutors take refuge are, as yet, the only places where undergraduates of the same intellectual tastes, as indicated by their concentrations, have an opportunity to meet one another in a situation conducive to profitable discussion...