Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tutor Has Closer Contact...
Herein lies the difference between the methods of the tutor and the lecturer; for no lecturer can ever be wholly honest. He assumes a position of superiority and omniscience and he addresses his audience out of the fullness thereof; he demands attention and at least superficial respect; and he is forced by public opinion and by that of Dr. Brinton to use the arts and devices of public speaking. He introduces, classifies and perorates and cannot be tripped up at the right moment by any skeptical listener. Whereas a tutor cannot declaim to one man, and he can be heckled...
After these captious criticisms I hesitate to expose myself to counterattack by making positive suggestions on the subject of Harvard's tutorial system. The conditions under which the Harvard and Oxford tutors work are so different that comparisons are not very profitable. The Harvard tutor is not as yet the jealous deity typified by the Oxford tutor, who will have no other gods save him and assumes complete responsibility for the doings of his pupils. The former is therefore in greater danger of being misused as a coach, in order to fill up gaps in knowledge just before the examinations...
...things are necessary if any tutor is to give of his best and not waste his gift;--first, a clear distinction between men who seek honours in their course and men who come to the university to obtain a degree, a letter, an atmosphere or some such token which does not necessitate individual discussion and critical treatment of their studies...
Secondly, the tutor must have the responsible supervision of his pupil's academic career throughout his undergraduate days; in order that he may unify his studies, and see that his development is not thwarted amid the mazes and pitfalls of grades, courses, and similar disturbances of the peace...