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EDITORIAL PAGE PAGE TWO THE CLARION November 17, 1967 The Seminar: A Better Method? A new form of education is gradually being ex- nerimented with in various institutions today, it is fhrSminar The seminar from the or^ classroom method of education in that it i , ed on a less formal basis, and covers more of the de tailed aspects of each particular course Bemuse of its verv nature, the seminar is a more effective form of learning: if the ultimate goal of education is the training and development of it should be, then the seminar should be the method of education in use today. One advantage of the seminar is that it stimu lates personal initiative in the individual student. In jthe classroom method, a student is given a cut and (dried assignment from a book common to all tne pupils in the class. But in the seminar form, the student searches for knowledge in books which ne himself has chosen. As a result, he is able to achieve a sense of satisfaction, in that he learns and exploits his subject to the limits that he feels are necessary, and not to the limits given in the assignment. In this respect, each student gains his knowledge in his own unique way. He may be stimulated to searc^ out the detailed aspects of his subject, and go beyond the limit generally established in _ classroom educa tion. For example, a student might be asked to ex plore Hannibal’s invasion of Italy. After he bas found out what Hannibal accomplished, he might further interested in why Hannibal did what he did. This knowledge can only be acquired through ex tracurricular reading. It is impossible to over-evaluate the worth of this type of stimulated interest in the student. W^^^e it is true that some students will seek out additional information on some subject, this is not common in the present form of education. The drudgery, bore dom, and routine of daily classroom learning is re moved in the seminar, and replaced with a genuine interest. Also, the knowledge that one acquires when he is interested in a subject is retained^ much longer than if he had not been concerned with the subject. The elimination of tests and the subsequent crammed “knowledge” give way to a more gradual and effective learning process. Perhaps the greatest advantage of the seminar is that it gives the student a desire and a reason to learn. The present system can give little inspira tion or reason to the student who searches for it, sim'ply because there is none. Theoretically, the ob jective of the present system is the attainment of knowledge. Under the existing principles, the cut throat competition between individuals is placed above the importance of knoweldge, and the ulti mate goal of education is actually forgotten. Learn ing tends to become less important than “making the grade.” But if the seminar students are graded on their personal achievements, then they realize that they are not competing against others, but against themselves. The essential reason for learning then takes on an entirely new perspective — the perfection and de velopment of the human mind, through knowledge. The worth of the resulting man is much greater, be cause his process of acquiring knoweldge does not end when the classroom requirements stop. Rather, he continues to search for knowledge after his for mal education has been completed, because the na ture of the seminar has taught him the personal —Turn to Page Foot SNEA Holds Monthly Meeting The monthly meeting of the Student Education Association was conducted in the faculty dining room November 10. A film from the National Educa tion Association, “Not by Chance,” was shown at the meeting. The film traced the progression of a teacher from high school ideas through col lege training and finally to the actual occupation. Besides be ing informative, “Not by Chance,” offered an inspira tion and a challenge to the members of the SNEA. In commenting on the con tent of the film, adivsor _ Mr. Harrison Tawney ejcplained: “In the colleges of North C^o- Hna, a student who is aspiring to be a teacher is really for tunate in the type of program the colleges offer potential teachers. Prior to actual teach ing, the student imdergoes a semester of courses involving psychology, philosophy, and his major, and the second semes ter is entirely devoted to stud ent teaching in some secondary school.” A possible summer tutoring program, involving Brevard College students as tutors, was explained by Mr. Tawney. The tutoring will not involve ac tual subject matter and will be solely for high school juniors and seniors in the area. The purfpose of the program is to persuade high school students to attend college. The tutors would receive room and board and hourly wages. The program is still in the planning stage. (Continued from Page One art majors, and all other jors. If you have not seen the “Aspects of a Secretary,” put those leg muscles to work. It just might be worth the ef fort! ma- THE WAR: CAMPUS ISSUE OF THE YEAR (AGP) — No campus, however provincial ordinarily, has been able to shut itself off from the dialogue over the war in Vietnam. An issue of such force, such immediacy, has not hit the campus since the civil rights upheaval of 1964. And the campus IS reacting, with a fen'or unequaled in this generation. While the dissenters are still relatively few, they seem to have given a war-and-peace orientation to the entire campus. The forms of dissent are as diverse as the campuses them selves: High above the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas, a former student held a silent vigil atop a flagpole. His sign read: “200 men died because five refused to be drafted." It referred, not to Vietnam, but to a World War II ind- dent in which five Negroes who refused to be drafted set off a riot in Colfax, La., which resulted in the lynching of 200 Negroes, But had there not been a Vietnam, and the resultant war con sciousness, his ire might not have been aroused. It mattered not, he was quoted as saying in the SMU CAM PUS, that the incident occurred 20 years ago. “The first per son who talked to me while I was picketing told me I shouldn’t be making trouble about something that happened 20 years ago,” he said. “Then in the next breath he told me that people who refused to be drafted ought to be hanged anyway.” “The draft is not the issue I am concerned with,” he said. “It’s the fact that people who refused to be drafted could be hanged in this country. They should be ready to go to jail since that’s the law, but not die.” Near the University of North Carolina’s Chapel HUl Cam pus, students are exposed every Wednesday to a long line of silent protestors. Among them one day last month was an 84- year-old retired Episcopal priest, who had been part of the vigil nearly every week since January because, he told a DAILY TAR HEEL reporter. “I want peace for my children.” “We don’t want to push ourselves on anyone, that’s why we’re silent,” he said. “We just want to make our views known.” The new chairman, Vance Opperman, 24, a second-year law student, immediately made known his plans to introduce a reso- lution calling for an unconditional end to the war at the Club’s November meeting. Other organizations soliciting students’ support are Indi viduals Against the Crime of Silence, Negotiation Now, and Dissenting Democrats. The first group contains such signatories as James Baldwin, Ben Gazzara, Ring Lardner, Jr.. Dr. Linus Pauling, Dr. Benja min Speck, and Dick Van Dyke, who, “appalled and angered by the conduct of our country in Vietnam,” have given their names to the Secretary General of the UN, “iboth as permanent witness to our opposition to the war in Vietnam and as a demonstration •hat the conscience of America is not dead.” The Clarion EDITOR Steve Huggins NEWS EDITOR Wajme Morton FEATURE EDITORS Jackie Griffith, Peggy Mizzell SPORTS EDITORS Mike Bumgardner, Bill Payton PHOTOGtRAPHER Don Kirkendall ILLUSTRATOR Norris Wheldon BUSINESS MANAGERS Rod Binkley, Jo Ann Pace REPORTERS Bruce Armes, Linda Benson, Susan Zehrung SPONSOR Ena Kate Sigmon 0 o
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