May 2013 archive

Examination As a Neurotic Factor in the Student-Teacher Relationship

  By Lida Prypchan   Traditional examinations are a mythologized anachronism that put real stress on the student-teacher equation.  If you ask any student about the usefulness of this method of evaluation, the responses are overwhelmingly baffling and ambiguous, mediated by the urge to finish their classes with a degree permitting them to go into …

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Educational Explosion

By Lida Prypchan The most recent generations of students and teachers have run into a serious problem; given the educational explosion parallel to the demographic growth of the population, classrooms worldwide face a common spectacle: student overcrowding, a shortage of teachers and insufficient time to cover all the materials needed for professional training.     …

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The Art of Scientific Investigation

  By Lida Prypchan   Chance Undoubtedly chance has played an important role in scientific discoveries.  Its importance increases when we think about how common failures and frustrations are in research.  Probably most of the discoveries in biology and medicine have been unexpected or at least have had an element of chance, especially the most …

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  By Lida Prypchan   The Dostoyevsky’s had their roots in the Russian nobility.  But their genealogy presents a long line of mystics, the mentally unbalanced, geniuses and the criminally insane.     A Maria Dostoevsky was sentenced to death for killing her first husband after trying to kill her stepson.  As the result of …

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