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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 4. 1967.

Addiction

Addiction

"Judgment by performance, not test or grades, is what is needed. Hunger for good grades is addiction to a bad habit. Schools have such different standards on grading that grades are practically meaningless, he said. Grades also tend to limit the student to the fields in which he feels safest.

"I would like to see an open forum to report lousy teaching on each campus. Students are rarely wrong about their teachers, particularly if asked as responsible adults," said Dr. Taylor.

"There's also no need for large lectures. You can certainly break down groups into 3 smaller seminars or independent study groups.

"Many of these ideas—freshman seminars, field work, no grades, criticism of teachers — worked well at Sarah Lawrence. Taylor said."