Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only permanent way to keep tutorial sessions, full, however, is to make them choice plums of the curriculum. This job belongs mainly to the tutors. But according to the CRIMSON poll, over half of those dissatisfied with the program named their tutor as the reason. He dominated the discussion, they claimed, and too often parcelled out assignments without consulting his tutees. That was bad, but when the tutor made his special field the subject of group study, tutorial became unbearable for those with different interests...
Certainly, the tutor, as the man who best knows, the area, should a have considerable influence in deciding the study material, but he should always be ready to accommodate the wishes of his tutees. First, the department heads should set the general path of study, then, with suggestions rather than commands, the tutor should allow interest to shape particular assignments within the group...
...Just as tutors should not veto reasonable student requests, they should not dictate the work merely because the students do not seem interested in deciding for themselves. Stimulating discussion along lines of student interest should produce further footholds in new topics. If, allowing his tutees freedom to choose their own study, the tutor cannot interest them, he is probably a worse teacher than they are students...
Social Sciences 6, Freedom and Authority in the Modern World, the new elementary course, will be taught by John J. Conway, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Eliot House, and Stephen R. Graubard, Executive Secretary of the Committee on General Education. Both are presently lecturers in Social Sciences...
Inevitably, little Norbert turned out to be something of an infantile monster. Once, when a Latin tutor annoyed him, he turned the garden hose on the fellow. Another time, when his parents sent him to a Unitarian Sunday school to give him some contact with other children, little Atheist Norbert got into debates with the minister on the existence...