19th Century Pedagogy

Casazza (1995) talks about 19th century pedagogy in higher education:

...it was assumed that all students, once accepted, would proceed at the same pace and with the same instructional delivery techniques. Students were assigned a tutor who was charged with reading their lessons to them and then listening to their recitations to verify that they had memorized the given text.

and cites Butts & Cremin's criticism of this practice that:

The attempt to force together sixty or eighty young men, many of whom have nothing ... in common... and to compel them to advance... (at the same pace)...giving to the most industrious and intelligent no more and no other lessons, than to the most dull and idle is a thing that is unknown to the practical arrangements for education in other countries. (Butts & Cremin, 1953, p. 226).

• Casazza, M. (1995). Evolution of Learning Assistance in Higher Education <http://nlu.nl.edu/ace/Resources/Documents/LearningAsst.html>.