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Olie: I think that as soon as anyone becomes content with himself that he should quit, because he ' s not going to be any good from then on. I ' m not content. Olie: I ' m becoming more and more disillusioned with classroom tests. You only have so much time. . .and the danger is you try to get sort of cute little questions, trick questions I guess the students call them, which can be done rapidly if you ' re lucky. I guess the teacher likes to say that you can do them if you really understand the material. Maybe there ' s too much luck involved. I prefer to go to oral exams or take-home exams, talk to the students and just try to find out subjectively how good a grasp he has of the material.
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Hall: How do you think the goals of the students of today have changed from the students of your day? Olie: Probably not too much. Hall: Do you think the student still looks for a job with a lot of money? Olie: A lot of them. Perhaps in the last few years the emphasis has started to decline on the money aspect. There are probably more students interested in, or paying lip service to, doing ' good works ' . Tech now has about one or two students a year going into the Peace Corp. That ' s a big step forward. Hall: Do you think Tech stimulates that interest? Olie: No, I think the emphasis at Tech is on what kind of salary you get when you graduate. That ' s what the kids talk about: the job that gets the biggest salary. If things suddenly got good, I ' m afraid we ' d see a lot of articles in the Worcester newspapers about what the average starting salary for a Tech graduate was. I think this is a horrendous misplacement of values. It changed somewhat last year because people didn ' t have jobs. Whether it ' s a permanent change or not I don ' t know. But I would hate to hand this alternative to most of the graduates of this place: I ' ll start you off at $12,000 a year or let you join the Peace Corp. Hall: How many people, do you think, who are graduating from here now, would turn down a job simply because they don ' t feel they ' re ready to go into the job world of fifty weeks of work and two of vacation? Olie: I know a few who have done it last year. I wouldn ' t say a high percentage. Most of the kids who get out of here are going to fit immediately into that groove. They ' re going to get their job then get married then settle down and build their little box houses and try to work their way up the ladder. Hall: Outside of Tech would you say the trend is away from jobs and doing more of what you want to do? Olie: I don ' t have that much contact outside of Tech, but I doubt it. I think that a lot of these liberal arts colleges are filled with a bunch of phonies. I ' d say a big percentage of them are phonies. And there are phonies around here, but, my own personal opinion of a Tech student is that he ' s honest. At least he will admit that he ' s going out to make money.
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