Word: tutors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feel that more emphasis might well be laid on tutorial work and less on course work, with, of course, the obvious necessity of appointing highly qualified tutors. I also feel strongly that if tutorial work is to be really effective, it should be put on a level with the highest quality of faculty instruction. To my mind the position of tutor should be an end in itself, rather than a means to an end, i.e., a more advanced faculty appointment, which it now patently is. Moreover, I should like to see a Tutorial Board which had its generous representation...
...favor drastic changes, but the system is not yet so successful as it might be. Tutorial work is most successful with the serious student (he need not be brilliant), and this suggest that the student is more often to blame for the failure of the system than the tutor...
...Your tutor is neither a lecturer, researcher nor a don; he is all three daily by the necessity of his calling, and you cannot divide him. Moreover, as he is at work on the main business of his career you cannot separate him, his work, and his tastes from the obligations of this career. Can you say to any man: Discounting the problem of your getting ahead and expect an honest and at the same time an informative reply? I think...
...think I do better work with these students that I know well. It is easier for them to borrow books from me, we can discuss literary matters at meal times, and I should not be surprised if it were generally true that students in Houses are better tutored than those outside--not that there are better tutors in Houses, but from the point of view of frequency, informality, and intimacy. The diffidence of the tutee who sees his tutor only once a fortnight is overcome by the daily meetings in common rooms and dining halls, and I get much better...
...general, one must direct his instructing towards Divisionals, but I never hesitate to encourage an enterprising student to investigate the by-paths and to follow out personal preferences, I should like to add a bromide to the effect that the most important thing about the tutorial system is the tutor and not the system. The less organization the better, so long as the tutors are absolutely first-class in scholarship, intelligence, and personality. The tutor in a great university like Harvard should be regarded as a friend as well as a pedagogue. I hold that the social aspects of tutoring...