Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

Page 29 text:

Homework surely constitutes an integral part of the learning process ... but it is a bit disheartening to have it collected daily and merely receive a big red check in a grade book with no attempt made at correction. And labs certainly provide a fine opportunity for instructive and creative experimental work ... unless they degenerate into cook-book recipe sessions or a flick-the-switch-start-taking-data affair ... or worse, a proctored problem period ... complete with no-talking-to-your-neighbor ... vestiges of high school study hall!

Page 28 text:

Need we be exhorted to learn that for which we have paid an incredible tuition? ... or perhaps we deserve such prodding, for equally incredible is our attitude of learning just enough to get the grade we desire ... and no more. But surely unnecessary are the needless daily quizzes ... often merely in retaliation for a half-filled classroom ... and the threat of surprise exams which frighten us into keeping abreast of the work imposed on us.

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And should not exams hope to instill confidence and provide encouragement and confirmation of our progress? Many do, but we have all taken screw exams ... long, unwieldly intellectual inventories. Slide rules out of cases ... pencils in hand ... ready. Or maybe this one is a Le Mans start ... wait for the sig- nal ... grab a seat ... fire up the old sagging psyche ... mind straining, shackled to any unyielding problem ...