The Student-Teacher Relationship at the College Level
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors (1915-1955)
Abstract
It is very easy, in thinking of student-teacher relationships, to forget the complexity of the participating units. Of this we must first remind ourselves. The only efficient specialist is a piece of machinery, for it is created to do just one thing, and its structure makes possible only those relationships to other machines which its makers desire to effect. These are simple, controllable, unitary. Machinery is free from initiative and development. Its interests are never hard to define, never overlap. Given, there- fore, the right belt or gear mesh, a machine sets up clear-cut, teleologically perfect relationships with other machines. A machine can even do this with a human being. Between a good typist and a typewriter there is a relationship which never needs definition, and breaks down only for causes that can easily be analyzed and remedied
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2307/40220390
Publication Date
12-1942
Recommended Citation
Betz, Siegmund A.E., "The Student-Teacher Relationship at the College Level" (1942). Faculty Scholarship. 364.
https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/faculty-research-papers/364