Word: learner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actual experiment, Friedberg simulated the arrangement of his own theoretical "Herman" computer connected to a "teacher" and a "learner" on the IBM 704 computer...
With group dynamics, a class need not cover any particular amount of ground, and must not treat the teacher as anything but a "resource person who sparks sharing or supplies material at a psychological time." "In a modern democratic society," say Hollis and Jeep, "the emotionally healthy learner seeks more and should seek more for the acceptance of his peers than for the acceptance of the teacher. Teacher approval tends to weaken peer approval." Students thought up most assignments, were "encouraged to do as much or as little reading as their individual needs seemed to require." The whole idea...
...very real sense, it has failed to meet the challenge of the 20th century. It either could not, or did not, effectively cope with the problems presented by the extension of universal public education up through the high school. By ignoring all psychological findings regarding the nature of the learner and the learning process, it cut itself off from an important and valuable source of information; and it gave insufficient attention to the problem of individual differences...
...problem haunting St. Louis school officials was unfortunately familiar to urban school systems the country over: What to do with gifted students? Bogged down in large classes and forced to move at a slow learner's pace, they were wasting both their time and their talents...
...life is a grind for the undergraduate, it is a grist mill for the advanced student. Already equipped with some scientific training, the grad student finds Tech more a job where he is an apprentice than a school where he is a learner. For him this is no 9-5 day, 40-hour week proposition. The chemical engineers and spectroscopists may work around the clock figures on a dial, and the night lights of the architectural drafting room are a beacon that can be seen as far down Mass. Ave, as Central Square...