Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article describing certain phases of the tutorial system at Oxford was written especially for the CRIMSON by Deane Jones, a former tutor at Oxford who is now residing in Cambridge...
Despite this indictment I confess myself an Oxford tutor, and as such I feel compelled to criticise a little this model of a historical essay, and then to use it, as all tutors should, for the basis of my own suggestions...
...impersonal jealousy for the honor of the Science of History. Your learned contributor, I hear, is a historian, and I am therefore astonished to see that he has neglected to fortify, his statements by declaring his sources. He forces me to claim the distinction of being an original source--"Tutor est fons animatus", lest any of your readers should imagine that all Oxford dons are movie fans. I admit that it is highly desirable that they should be but I fear that such a state of things is ideal and as yet outside the range of practical academies...
...although in quotation marks, the myth of the "Oxford tutorial system". Until I reached this country I was not aware that I was a cog of any such imposing machine. I had imagined hitherto that I was living and working in an academic and therefore respectable anarchy, in which tutors and pupils were at the mercy of each others' whims and weaknesses--a situation which engenders self-reliance if nothing else. But in America I have been asked to formulate methods and recite the Tutorial Code and Catechism, and I very much fear that in confusion and in shame...
...that respect of the pupil for his tutor is fatal to both...