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...well. Though the changes are often controversial, many colleges have revised their curricula to include courses in non-Western cultures and values. Fewer and fewer of the history and literature surveys focus exclusively on the West European heritage. "The curriculum has been radically realigned," says Carnegie Foundation president Ernest Boyer. "Minorities have insisted on it, women have insisted on it, and frankly it's made universities dramatically better places...
...speech or required reading will change overnight the attitudes embedded in a culture that children absorb while growing up. Nor will they easily break the cycle of hate. "If you can't have a university that lives together with some degree of civility and integrity amidst the diversity," asks Boyer, "how can we expect our cities and towns to do the same...
Such moves indicate that the once sacred principle of local control is rapidly going the way of McGuffey's Reader. "This nation was intensely committed to the idea that each district should be run by school boards unrelated to larger national purposes," says Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. "Now we are moving toward the issue of how national interests can be served...
...fact, the authors say in their exhaustive--even tedious--catalogue of quotes, Charles Boyer never invited anyone to the Casbah. Sherlock Holmes never chided his sidekick with the words, "Elementary, my dear Watson." And Will Rogers never said he never met a man he didn't like...
...Boyer's statement was a fabrication of his publicist, Holmes' a pure fabrication and Rogers an inaccuracy (What the comedian actually said, according to George and Boller, was, "I joked about every prominent man in my lifetime, but I never met one I didn't like...