Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was no formality in the farewell. Simply a grip of strong hands, blue eyes searching each other, a whispered message for Murgatroyd's tutor, and they were gone...
...subtly invited to consider, by the provisions of the reading periods, that they will not be expected to consider the periods just so much holiday, applying themselves to the reading lists only at the very end of the period and then under the deft ministrations of an expert hired tutor. When they are supposed to be reading about Laertes and the nebular hypothesis and Socratian argument they will be expected to be doing so, not keeping social engagements in Boston or playing squash and hand ball...
...their own satisfaction that a man's intelligence quota, his ability to deal with facts and situations is constant throughout life. With this in view, to ground him in facts, to give him tools with which to work, would seem the logical means of education. True, an intelligent tutor or stimulating lecturer can often awaken the dormant perceptive and critical faculties. But to let them play unconfined over impossibly wide fields of knowledge for several years, without any strict disciplining of the retentive powers, which are susceptible to improvement, appears but a waste of time. And this is the widely...
...view of this situation, the tutor is quite powerless to do anything but direct his student to such reading as will cover the writers left unstudied in his regular courses and coach him on the best ways of handling examination questions. Even if the tutor has a strong personal love for literature as one of the fine arts, he has not time to share his enthusiasm with those who come to him for direction, no time to arouse in them a taste for beauty, or to show that the cultivation of critical standards may help each one to find...
...only do these examinations set strict limits on the relationship between tutor and student. I believe that they are capable of exercising a very unwhole-some influence in respect to the kind of person chosen to fill the position, thus further impairing the contact I feel to be so important. Most young men who are enthusiastically concerned to become successful teachers, and who may by good fortune possess creative imaginations of their own, will not be content to labor long under the shackles of the traditional conception of literature and of these new examinations which extend its power...