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The WESTERN MARYLAND COLLEGE Magazine The Alumni Associcnon Paul V. Wooden, '37. __ President Clarence H. Bennett, '28, Vice President February, 1964 Volume XLV, Number 2 C. Lease Bussard, '34 _ Past President: Philip B. Schaeffer, '48 TreaSllrer Philip E. Uhrig, '52, Executiuc Secflltof!/ Editor, Nancy Lee Winkelman, '51 ALU:\1NI VISITORS TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Clarence H. Bennett, '28 James R. Mann, '31 Miriam Royer Brickett, '27 Wilmer V. Bell, '30 J. Allison Conley, '47 Arthur G. Broil, '29 AN EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE IN VIETNAM. Isabel I. Royer A LETTER FROM TUNISIA Carolyn V. Carter, '61 DIRECTORS Beth Witzke Barnes, '53 Webster R. Hood, '40 Wilbur D. Preston, '46 Betty Lee Robbins Seiland, '50 ON THE HILL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. Philip E. Uhrig ............. 11 John H. Edwards, '53 Jacqueline Brown Hering, '51 TOP HAT ON THE EUROPEAN BEAT __ ..._.. ..._ 12 NEWS FROM ALUMNI. .........._ 13 COVER STORY As all know, February on the Hill even those most deeply deto this campus. There is wind snow and wind and cold and then more wind. To parnphrase, if February is here, Spring had better not he far behind! Copyright '964 by Western Maryland CoUegc ~~;t~;"~:;: ,,~~A~~~t,~~ h;~~;Ec':.~c~~.AGAZINE. Westminster, Md., publi,hed ,ix timoi " yeM, 0""" in the ",onlh, of D~~mhcr, Fchn'MY, April, July, ,peci~D~~~~ of~ p~~~~~ ;~~!id:;:;"t;~~, i,~l:~tl~~ Il%k ~,~tl~fb';:;~I~:"3.ihl'i.e'tnlinst Pr , Md., n"dcr tho net nf AlI~lIst 24, 1912. Accepl~d for mniling nt 1)lIge three
An Educational Experience in Vietnam by I sobel 1. Rojer After teaching a year in Vietnam I have developed two very deep convictions-an unshakeable faith in the American system of education and the importance of sharing the techniques and advantages of our system of education with undeveloped countries to heJp these countries develop their resources, raise their standards of living, and become stable political units. It is interesting to study the old Vietnamese system of education and its relation to the political structure. Before the influence of the <strong>western</strong> powers in that part of the world in the last century, the government was almost entirely controlled by the mandarins who were the ruling agents of the Emperor. These mandarins were chosen entirely on the basis of very tough competitive examinations-examinations which were open to all. This meant the government was free from the universal evils of class and caste found in other parts of the world. There was no other road to public life and the ambition of the Vietnamese was not to be rich but to be educated and to be an official in the government. Even though the philosophy of the close connection between education and government sounds like an ideal one, it turned out to be responsible, to a large degree, for the downfall of the Nguyen dynasty and for the subsequent French colonization. The education itself was dogmatic Confucianism, stagnate, and predicated on the premise that all knowledge was known and that there could be no further additions to it. This, of course, was the wrong philosophy for the nineteenth century. Education in Vietnam today is a curious mixture of the oriental and French techniques and philosophy. Only very recently has a little of the American influence been added and at least locally it behaved as a ferment. My plea is-let's add more ferment! The French influence on the present Vietnamese educational system is reflected in the formal lecture system, the absence of classroom discussion, the rigid laboratory procedures, the fixed curriculum, and the importance of the one final examination to determine which students pass the course. The high respect of the Oriental for learning and for scholars sometimes has an unusual effect on the educational system. Because the possession of a diploma and the position of being a professor places the professor in the position of being highly respected for the rest of his life-whether or not he works hard trying to be a successful teacher-the professor can become lazy. He usually gives no examinations until the end of the year page four and, in my opinion, this is the most objectionable feature of the educational process in Vietnam. The examination which determines if one passes or fails often consists of several essay questions-choose one (or more) and write all the details you know. The element of chance plays a major role on this system. Students do not study all parts of ,the COurseequally well, they make no atteml~t to orgeruze or correlate information but rather take then' ~hances on picking out the several portions to study In (~etail so they can repeat the lecture notes of these sections practically verbatim. To this system of passing or failing have been added several other curious features. When a student passes a cour~e.he usually receives a grade only slightly above the rmmmum required to pass. The grades for all the COursestaken during a given year are averaged together and if the average is below a given figure, the student repeats-all the courses of that year. By this ingeniOUS
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The President's Column REFLECTIONS
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ALUMNI DAY Fours and Nines returned
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Alumni Banquet During the Closs Rol
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COLLEGE AWARDS 142 DEGREES IN JUNE
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The President's Column COLLEGE INCO
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VrnCINIA ·Paul F. Woode~ ··Bever
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The President's Column A Busy Summe
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"AT HOME" IN TEHERAN by Martha Hodg
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On the Hill New Faculty There were
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Mr. Black Retires Edward M. Black,
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several of our professors, includin
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NEWS FROM ALUMNI 1894 Mrs. Carrie F
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Women of Baltimore and, th~ Marylan
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placement courses in mathematics in
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