7 Y 14, 1965

THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Y 14, 1965 THE MICHIGAN DAILY

)UCATION IN 1984

Schools Must Stress Concepts'

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acquire knowledge, E r i c k s e n
said.
Today, however, "knowledge is
getting away from, us. The out-
pouring of knowledge is so fast,
we can't keep up with it."
A result of this explosion, Erick-
sen observed, is "informational ob-
solescence": even before a student
graduates, new discoveries are be-,
ginning to outdate the facts he
has just learned..
Concepts, on the other hand, are
a bit more durable. Once mas-
tered, they enable the student to
"abstract out of real-life situa-
tions, relationships that are the
same as those he learned in the
classroom," Ericksen explained.
Coping with the knowledge ex-
plosion will involve more than
merely teaching concepts in gen-
eral, he continued. Educators of
1984 should be especially con-
cerned with imparting methods of
inquiry, rational values and mo-
tivation:
-Methods of inquiry-"gener-
alized procedures scientists and
scholars use to wrestle with their
problems"-will enable the stu-
dent to get what facts he needs
on his own, even after his formal
education is completed.
-Values will become increas-
ingly important, because men will,
have to decide what to do with
their more and more potent tech-
nological powers. These questions
are "broad, complicated and be-
yond the scope of science," Erick-

sen maintained. "The humanities
will have to carry the major bur-
den of discussing them, from kin-
dergarten to the Ph.D. level."
For example, he cited the need
for more precise analyses of value
words. "Freedom", he pointed out,
is a rallying cry for both the civil-
rights movement and the Gqjd-
water bandwagon-yet it means
radically different things to each
group. Stress on semantics rather
than on spelling and grammar in
courses such as freshman English
would help get American politics
off this "abstract verbal merry-go-
round," Ericksen declared.
-Motivation for learning must
be made more genuine. "The way
a teacher does it now is by ap-
pealing to extrinsic motives." He
threatens the student with poor
grades, flunking out, rejection of
his college entrance application or
lowered earning power-"reasons
other than the act of acquiring
knowledge," Ericksen said.
He called for teachers to learn
to utilize "intrinsic motives," to
show students that "the acquisi-
tion of knowledge can be its own
reward. The whole situation in
education will change dramatical-
ly when that is achieved," he pre-
dicted.
All of these are what should be
taught in 1984. In order to teach
them, however, educators will
have to discard old methods and
embrace the new educational
technology which is emerging to-
day, Ericksen said.
And equally important, they

must use it imaginatively. Erick-
sen warned that technical innova-
tions may be used to promote
false, assembly-line ' 'efficiency"
rather than to improve the im-
pact of education on the individ-
ual student.
He cited one college which has
built a "white elephant" televi-
sion-lecture hall. In its center, a
professor delivers his lecture to a
television camera. Around him,
arranged like slices in a pie, are
five 300-seat lecture halls, each
with a mammoth TV screen.
"The path of least resistance
seems to be to teach the same
thing to more and more students,"
Ericksen said.
But automation can be used to
promote dissent and individuality.
To accomplish this, he suggested,
educators could establish a uni-
versity along these lines:
"As part of its library system
there would be a series of auto-
mated carrells." Each carrell
would be linked to a computer and
equipped with various visual and
aural teaching devices. Here a
student could receive individual-
ized instruction in the factual
matter of the course.
In effect, the machines could
bring him from ignorance of a
subject to mastery of its estab-
lished body of knowledge. From
this plateau, the teacher would
take over.
Then "the professor will sit with
the students as a teacher talking
like a researcher." With such well-
prepared students, a dialogue
could take place concerning the
advanced aspects of the subject,
the areas where there are no'
clear-cut answers.
They could discuss, for example,
the latest research. "No longer'
would there be this disjunction'
between teaching and research,''
Ericksen said.
When will all this come about?
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cational innovation, Ericksen is
pessimistic about the outlook for
radical change. "Education lags
far behind medicine and law in
trying to bring about individual-
ized treatment. We feel more com-
fortable teaching the things we
learned as students.
Professors aren't going to like
it, because the easiest thing to do
is to stand before an audience and
drop pearls of wisdom.
"We feel more comfortable
teaching the things we learned as
students," he remarked.
Ericksens talk also touched on
several other issues of local sig-
nificance. Among them:
-College Boards, tests which
test the academic abilities of ap-
plicants for college admission,
aren't enough, he said. "Whatever
it is that these tests measures ac-
counts for only about 25 per cent
of what makes for success." He
said that additional criteria-such
as values, criteria and motiva-
tion-must be used in evaluating
applicants.
-The measure of a school's
success shouldn't be just its top
students but all of them-includ-
ing the proportion of them who
drop out, he asserted. In line with
improving the lot of the average
student, he said, the Center for
Research in Learning and Teach-
ing is taking an interest in the
University's "equal opportunities
program.
This recently-initiated program
is bringing students to the Uni-
versity from poor areas of De-
troit. "All of them have the abil-
ity to graduate. If they drop out,
it'll be largely for non-academic
reasons," Ericksen said.
-He commended the University
for "lagging behind" other colleges
in the trend toward false efficien-
cy in education. He said it has
done more than any Big Ten
school to maintain an emphasis
on educating students to be indi-
viduals.

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submit their nominations. These
are based on high school academic
performance, test scores, extra-
curricular achievements and per-
sonality traits. The most important
characteristics will be motivation-
al attitudes which Sain said has
been an important variable in
University studies.
Objective criterion - such as
national tests-will also be taken
into account.
The students will then apply to
the college of their choice. If they
win, all that remains is for the
school to accept them.
Difficult
Sain said that it is difficult
to estimate how many of these
students will wind up at the Uni-
versity. He predicted that the nu-
merical limitations by section
would keep the state of Michi-
gan's total less than the Univer-
sity's Negro entrants culled from
its own program.
About 65 students will enter this
fall through opportunity award
grants.
In unveiling the Ford Founda-
tion program, President Henry
Heald observed the strikingly lcw
totals of Negroes entered in up-
per-level education.
"The foundation will continue
to help raise the standards of
education for Negroes with a goal
that might be defined as the day
when Negroes can win academic
parity with other young people
and actually no longer need spe-
cial scholarship programs," he
said.
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