Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...others whose work was better than average and who might conceivably become candidates for honors, would be given preferred rating as "tutorial men." Throughout the remainder of their college careers they would receive the fullest measure of tutorial instruction provided they continued to justify their preferment. To them the tutor would henceforth dedicate most of his time and energy, in an effort to bring their aptitude for scholarship to its finest flowering. As these students developed their capacity for independent, self-directed study, they should, upon the tutor's recommendation, be allowed increasing exemption from the formal requirements of course...
...take his studies into his own hands and push them forward with the joy of an intellectual explorer, without needing to be prodded by the inexorable requirement of courses and examinations, has received the greatest benefit which Harvard can bestow on him. One learns, however, in talking with tutors, that many students can never be brought to this point. The fact need occasion no surprise. A tutor is not a performer of miracles; try as he may, he cannot stimulate a student to do self-directed scholarly work of a high order if native aptitude for it does not exist...
...figures cited by different tutors were interesting. Some said that 20 per cent, of their students showed no appreciable response or benefit. One tutor put the figure as high as 50 per cent. The majority gave estimates that fell between these extremes, at around 25 or 30 per cent...
After all, the effectiveness of tutoring depends quite as much on the quality of the student as on the quality of the tutor. In this connection it is highly significant to compare the Department of History and Literature with, let us say, the Department of English. Not every student who may wish to do so is allowed to concentrate in History and Literature. The Department limits the number of its concentrators, selecting only the best candidates, and the effectiveness of tutoring in History and Literature is common knowledge. English, on the other hand, is a subject which many students select...
...present it costs just as much by the hour to tutor the unresponsive student as the responsive, and the drain on the tutor's energy is greater in the one case than in the other. Since these are times when every item of expense must justify itself, common sense would suggest that tutoring be reserved in large measure for those students who can realy profit by it. The tutorial system would be more efficient and would become all the more strongly established if its work were concentrated in the field of its major usefulness, and the resultant economies in operating...