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Teaching Technique Lauded by Lippmann

By Walter LIPPMANN columnist

When I first came to College, the cult of Copey was already firmly established. He was already acting on the assumption that teaching is not the handing down of knowledge from a platform to an anonymous mass of note-takers, but it is the personal encounter of two individuals.

Copey was not a professor teaching a crowd in a classroom. He was a very distinct person in a unique relationship with each individual who interested him.

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