Word: tutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recurrent criticism of the tutorial system has been that the tutors are too young, and that the turnover among them is too large. The average tutor spends several years learning how to perform his functions; if he fails to secure promotion he goes elsewhere, and must be supplanted by an inexperienced younger man. Worse still, tutoring has often been relegated to graduate students who could give only a fractional part of their time and interest...
...obvious cause of these conditions has been lack of money; another is nor far to seek. Tutoring has too rarely been regarded, either by the University or by the tutors, as a career. Often it has been not been not even the doorway to a career. The pay has been inadequate, the work exacting and often exhausting, and the tutor knew that, no matter how well he might perform his task, his promotion to an assistant professorship would depend upon qualifications among which tutoring ability ought to be one of the most important, but that it would rarely be given...
...Committee does not feel that these changes would weaken Harvard's educational machinery, but feel, on the other hand, that the best students would be given more freedom and incentive to do excellent work. From the tutor's standpoint, there would be more time for research and writing, the promotion of younger men would inject new blood into the Faculty, and the advancement of the best tutors would encourage the rest...
...improvement, and now that the System has become well established, constructive criticism such as that contained in the Report is immensely valuable. However, it is unfortunate that in suggesting methods of economy within the System, the Committee develops considerable attention to the possibility of doubling up students under one tutor...
...that of another. Even if students were grouped so that the two intended to work together did so congenially and at approximately the same speed, and with generally similar thoroughness, they will have lost the benefits of intimacy with the instructor. In the personal friendship which frequently arises between tutor and tutee is something so valuable, be it ever so intangible, that to sacrifice it without first considering all alternatives would amount to injustice to the System itself...