Duke University School of Medicine - Aesculapian Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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Duke Medical Center with new wing completed

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Foreword Even the most assiduous Workman will from time to time stand back to get a more general view of his work and to contemplate its wider relations. In- deed, such intermissions are necessary if he is to escape the tyranny of detail, and they need only the defence of a reasonable infrequency and of being ac- tually employed in their ostensible purpose. However austerely, therefore. we may hold the view that a school is best occupied in doing its job of teach- ing, we shall probably be willing to allow it the privilege and even to enjoin on it the duty of an occasional suspension of this task .... We can be fairly assured that communication between teacher and stu- dent is not to-day seriously restricted in the supposed interests of dignity and discipline on the one hand, or of the independence and self-assertion on the other. Indeed, a medical school is one of the few places of education where communication is constantly supported by the certainty the student may feel that the teacher is always willing to teach and by the similar certainty the teacher may feel that the student, in spite of whatever appearance to the con- trary, is always willing to learn .... We do not therefore need for our present purpose the usual attitude of critical inquisition, but rather the mood taught us by experience of our cli- mate and of human nature-the mood of philosophic resignation. From g'Art and Science in Medicine in The Collected Papers of Wilfred Tl'0ffl'l', F.R.S. Geoffrey Cumberlege. Oxford University Press. London. 1946. PAGE 4