Word: syllabus
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...course syllabus calls for the main arguments of a selected book and then the student's "own comments" on the reading he has done. The work is to be personal and critical...
...himself had placed the small flag in the coal bin, that they had not recited the oath of allegiance regularly since Miss De Lee left. Tightly clasping an American Beauty rose, Miss De Lee took the stand to deny that she was a Communist, quote from a teachers' syllabus in defense of her practice of admitting pet hens and rabbits to the classroom. Said she, "I asked Mr. Armstrong if he thought we were breathing fowl air." Superintendent George T. Fuggle of the Pompey Hollow School District put in a judicious word. The dismissal, Mr. Fuggle felt, was unjustified...
...Princeton. The New Deal, and the realignment of thought throughout the world that has led to experiments such as the New Deal, have made only superficial alterations in the courses offered by the Department of History, Government and Economics at Harvard. The new material added to the Harvard syllabus could be as well assimilated by the student in a careful study of newspapers and periodicals. With the increasing tendencies toward socialization and government interest in practically every field of enterprise, it is important that the college man should have an opportunity to gain a knowledge and understanding of modern political...
...view. The blighting influence of this goal atrophies all attempts to introduce training beyond the strict limits of requirements. When the competence of a teacher is judged by his pupils' success in the examinations, he can hardly afford to squander time on material not included in the College Board syllabus. Thus, instead of education, the whole apparatus of cramming flourishes. Instructors find outlines of the questions in their subject for the past ten, fifteen, or twenty-five years more useful than treatises on the subject itself...
...first-year men to take all the cuts possible. The droning voice of the lecturers, inaudible at the back of the room, is the best selling point that the Saturday Evening Post and Ballyhoo can vaunt. The amount of actual information dispensed is quite as adequately covered in the syllabus...