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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 4. May 4th 1949

Remedies

Remedies

The solution is a dual one. I'd throw a lot of the responsibility over to the schools: not asking for higher standards of scholarship, but for scholarship achieved by better means. At every stage the youngster should be given increasing freedom with increasing knowledge. By the time he is in the senior forms his attitude to study should be adult, and his relationship to his teacher egalitarian. The University on the other hand, should accept the responsibility of developing adult material in an adult fashion, I don't think that, notes read verbatim to a roomful of students." who scribble what they, hear for upwards of an hour without looking up at anything but the clock constitutes an adult situation. It isn't efficient, if only a duplicating machine could do the job better. It isn't psychologically or pedagogically sound, because the student loathes it and learns nothing unless he can decipher his scribble later, when making up for wasted time.

Why not give out notes in advance, or as summaries of essential points covered and use lecture periods as they should be used (and are used by Professors and lecturers who really teach) for tutorials and discussions?

Anton Vogt.