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...Math Aptitude...
...train the men entrusted with the power plants aboard nuclear subs and ships-about half the crew on a sub-and the training is aimed strictly at making sailors think. ("Hardware" courses come later at land-based nuclear plants.) The curriculum is a fat-free diet of pure math, physics, chemistry, electronics, engineering and health physics (to guard against radiation) that goes on for seven 50-minute periods a day, plus an average of four hours of homework done in a tiny, distraction-free cell. Teachers are on duty for help around the clock, and Rickover himself often conducts...
...Education. Though they may have entered the Navy with a sketchy scientific schooling, Rickover's recruits soar in his rarefied atmosphere. "I had the best math teachers in the world," gloats one sailor. "It's like getting a $20,000 education," says another. The most impressive result is a new willingness to keep studying after graduation. On the Polaris sub George Washington, for example, sailors will soon attend classes in everything from calculus to computers, recently took a Harvard extension course using kinescoped TV lectures by Historian Crane Brinton...
...Science students already carry a heavy load of difficult courses. Tutorial would only tend to crowd their schedule more and tempt them to give up non-science courses or essential science and math courses outside their field...
...incipient party became audible, my next door neighbor kindly said, "Hope you can stand another hour of this." Two hours later, after the whole dorm has spent a great deal of time in semi-riot, the proctorian rumble continues, and I have given up hope of finishing my Friday math assignment and getting the hum paper done. My gripe is that, first, it is unfair to conduct such a bolsterous affair on a Thursday night, when most Pennypackerites have classes on Friday; and, second, that, if such a party were the scene in my pad, our kindly proctors would quickly...