Word: processing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deeply grieved to think that a communication in which "its line of reasoning is similar to the mental process by which a small boy considers" a question should need to be analyzed and explained for Harvard men whom I have always thought "are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves". The realization of that fact forces me to enjoy all the more my worthy critic's editorial. "The Same as Us", because it is beyond a doubt the "Height of the Ridiculous". JOHN SUMNER WOOD...
...communication published in an adjoining column is worthy of comment because it represents what may be termed without giving offense the Tutoring School State of Mind. Its line of reasoning is similar to the mental process by which a small boy, seeing an inviting green apple dangling before him on somebody else's tree, considers that it is there to be eaten, that if he does not eat it there is a good chance it will fall to the ground and spoil, and ends by convincing himself that in taking the apple he has only made the most...
...Cour's miracle-working process of autosuggestion is based on the discovery that whenever the imagination and the will are in conflict it is the imagination which wins. And when we think that over the wonder is that we aren't all Dr. Coues...
...homogeneous view of the field, these are the more elusive virtues which the tutorial system is supplying and the divisional examinations are requiring more and more. In them as the report states the student has a chance to show not that "he has been duly subjected to a process, but what, as a result of it, he has become...
...doubt due in part to the fact that the student who enters young is on the average a brighter, more industrious, more serious boy than one who completes his school days at a later age. But there is also something in taking each part of the educational process at the appropriate time. Many a student enters older than is wise and then strives to go through his college course in three years, thereby substituting a year in school for one in college, although for the development and maturing of his capacity the latter is far the more valuable. With...