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...Core Curriculum is only a poor substitute for the good advice and counseling that would direct, but not coerce, students to attain a balanced education. And the Core will not solve one of Harvard's fundamental problems: the dearth of close associations between students and Faculty members. Instead, by setting up huge introductory courses as the bases of an already-suspect Harvard education, the Core will only widen the gulf between students and Faculty members. A Harvard education could easily be reduced to instruction by busy, underpaid graduate students who are more interested in pleasing their doctoral advisers than accommodating...
...philosophy of Black Consciousness...expresses group pride and the determination by the blacks to rise and attain the envisaged self. At the heart of this kind of thinking is the realization by the blacks that the most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Once the latter had been so effectively manipulated and controlled by the oppressor as to make the oppressed believe that he is a liability to the white man, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do that will really scare his powerful masters. Hence thinking along the lines...
Bothered only momentarily, Lee started again. "It's a vicarious thrill they get out of it," he shrugged toward the fan. "Instead of attaining that thrill first-hand, they attain it second-hand...those people are expecting things from you and if you work toward their expectations you're negating your principle in life because you're working for them and not for yourself...
...foot in Europe centuries before George Lucas made "American Grafitti." But America has adapted it, like other facets of Western civilization, on an enormous scale. In a rural Italian town 50 youths strolling by a park can turn a street into a strip; in Florida, it takes thousands to attain that critical mass. And the bids for sexual favors derive from an electic base. There are the crude grabs for women's body parts made by passing motorists. There are the fur-lined vans idling forward with their side doors open, displaying beds and smoking water pipes inside. There...
...Core does not insure a broad liberal education by merely requiring that students enroll in certain courses. Students cannot be forced to attain competency in a subject in which they lack interest or talent. There is no way to guarantee competency in a discipline without the support and receptivity of the student. Furthermore, the Core could not provide students with broad exposure to a number of disciplines without requiring a ridiculously heavy course load. Many Nat Sci professors object strenuously to the Core because they feel students cannot develop scientific understanding without taking a much larger number of science courses...