Word: barzun
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...broad questions to narrow ones). It is that in invites students to think of academic disciplines as separate cultures, each with its own language, customs and values--cultures whose presuppositions can be legitimately criticized only from within. Thus the principal encourages an attitude that the humanist and educator Jacques Barzun in Science: The Glorious Entertainment calls specialism...
...specialism is the enemy of "direct, unscholarly, unpedantic enjoyment, discussion and criticism" of the arts, humanities, and sciences, as Barzun puts it, what are their friends? I suggest that they are the skills (Barzun would say "powers"), habits and sensibilities that enable enjoyment, discussion and criticism. I suggest that core courses should seek to promote these central enabling skills, habits, and sensibilities; and that they should do so in broadly interesting and important substantive contexts...
...struggling with finding the answers [to Loker Commons' financial/social problems]," Condenzio says. "My message is: it's expensive. We're open to any ideas, thoughts and comments that may help us."CrimsonMelissa K. CrockerSAM D.G. ROBBINS '97 and CHARLES L. BARZUN '97 in Loker...
...However, Barzun said that he highly doubts that this change would be implemented...
...Perhaps [the Core Review Committee] can reach a middle ground, a flexibility between the Core and other classes [that could be taken for Core credit]," Barzun said...