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lone are any better criteria. ^I’he (•.lassies at least had the virtue of requiring some dejrree of scholar ship for their mastery. A teacher often \vouders what motive has pushed some of his stu. dents into his classes. 'I'he listless classroom attitude, the failure to show any initiative in study, tlie lack of grasj) of reiterated essen tials of the subject matte, the chiL isli and flatulent an.swers to exam ination iuestions_all these eviden ces of ineffectiveness may often be ex])lained by the misplaced em phasis ou the point, the semester hour, the credit. Of course it is not all the fault of the student. Rating boards. State boards setting the require ments for teacliers, graduate schools establishing entrance re quirements, and professional schools have helped to establish the l)oint system. Of course units of measurement are necessary, and uniform standards have their util ity; but no one has demonstrated that standardization guarantees in terest, thoroughness, or seholar.ship A teaclier’s idea of Paradise is not a schol where all the students have an. IQ of 150. Rather, he dreams of a place where students who are willing to work will b(> pursuing those subjects in which they are interested by inclination and ability. In that blest clime ex aminations, if any, will be a pleas ure instead of nightmare to both student and teacher, and any ref erence to points, credits, fior semes ter hours will be penalized by cast ing offender into outer darkness. C. D. Halliburton. NEW BENSON LIBRARY
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