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...reply to the gentleman who wanted to know what was wrong with attending Mr. Cramer's tutoring school, and whether, in fact, Mr. Cramer should not be encouraged, in view of his ultra-rapid success in teaching University courses, and whether the various professors should not make exams such as to prevent this sort of study, I would like to put in a few words in condemnation of Mr. Cramer...
...bull-slinging goes on in exams involving essay question, some conclusion must inevitably be reached. The better an interpretation of the reading that conclusion is (leaving lots of room for the variety of interpretations,) the better the mark. Intelligent students (they tell me) do the same thing Mr. Cramer does, more or less, and I don't suppose the college cares half as much as everybody thinks whether the interpretation of reading matter is done by the student or Mr. Cramer...
...moral wrong comes in here, and it applies only as long as only a minority consults Mr. Cramer, because the assumption is that you earned a college degree by work and study and thought, occasioned by personal interest. It is a fraud, I think, to parade a degree under conditions other than those--just as wrong as it is to present an engineering project under your name if it was drawn up by Mr. Cramer. And it is socially wrong in that Mr. Cramer's hobby emphasizes the fact than the acquisition, of a degree (i.e. and education) is auditioned...
...argued that my criticism of this system is ill taken, that is as much as to say that it samples accurately what each student knows, from which it follows that Mr. Cramer can teach a student more in six hours than he can learn from the Department of History in six weeks. In that event I should recommend that Mr. Cramer be hired on the spot to teach History...
...other hand, if my criticism is admitted, I suggest simply that Mr. Cramer be left in peace. Harold P. Furth...