Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been in the past a reluctance to give up the system of course credits before a different method of instruction had proved itself practicable to American conditions. This has had some unfortunate results. On the one hand, course requirements have often seriously interrupted the student's work with his tutor. On the other, the nature of course examinations tends to discourage, to some extent, the kind of work the general examination should stimulate. Of course, any such generalization as this is dangerous, because course examinations vary greatly according to the propensities of the professor and the character of the subject...
...Munroe is right in accusing us of recommending the transformation of the Tutorial System into a "pedagogical nursery" with every tutor a "task-master", then our whole case falls to the ground. For the whole idea was to allow those within the System the greatest possible freedom in their work, and no discipline save self-discipline...
...tutor's report to the head of his department would determine whether or not a student should remain within the system. Naturally if he held this fact over the head of his tutee, in order to make him do the required minimum of work, it would spoil the working of the system, and make Tutorial Students subject to the same sort of discipline as those outside...
...this would not be necessary. No more discussion of quantities of work, and minimum requirements, by the tutor with his tutee, would take place then than now. The assumption would always be that those within the system deserved to be there and the only taking stock would be, then as now, between the individual Tutor and the Head of his Department...
...tutor, of course, or a tutor who did not understand his duties, might use his power as a threat, make himself a "task-master", and make the system for his tutees "a sort of pedagogical nursery." But there is no reason to suppose this would happen, any more than it happens now with the not insignificant power of tutors in borderline cases...