Word: tutoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...view--maintenance of the lecture system in conjunction with tutorial work--is most logical in consideration of the lower standards of the American secondary schools. Furthermore the plan has the merits of joining the best features of the lecture regime with the indubitable benefits of conferences with one's tutor. While it is seldom wise to make generalizations, one might say that the American student mind is less fitted than the English for wholesale tutorial assistance to the exclusion of the course system. A larger percentage of American youth goes to college and consequently, in reality if not in theory...
...theory of the lecture-tutorial plan but in the apparatus are there weaknesses. Granted, the machinery is as yet on trial; nevertheless without criticism by tutors themselves, lecturers, and tutees that machinery will never be adjusted to perfection. Professor Eaton is quoted as saying that the tutor should endeavor to humanize and unify the student's grasp of his field. Others have made the same remark and all have been quite correct. Unfortunately the results have been disappointing in some respects. The disappointments have been far less noticeable than the successes of the movement; but the former have been...
Thesis Clarified By Tutor...
...Under the system in force at the University before the tutorial system began," Professor Eaton said, "the student's final thesis represented a careful written exposition of his subject. Under the tutorial system, the thesis is discussed with the tutor before it is written, so that a verbal expression of ideas, with the consequent rounding of knowledge, precedes and shapes the written expression...
...discover the individuality of the student, to find his main interests, and then to arouse an expression of those ideas by which knowledge becomes a living part of the students' mental fibre," concluded Professor Eaton, "is in substance my concept of the function of the tutor...