Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unavailable yesterday for comment, but earlier this week he said, "Because of the breadth of his experience with biomedical research, clinical medicine and national health-care needs, Dr. Tosteson was my first choice...
...Because of the breadth of his experience with biomedical research, clinical medicine, and national health-care needs, Dr. Tosteson was my first choice," Bok said yesterday...
While Rosovsky recognizes objections to his list of standards--from radicals who perceive them as "socializing our students on behalf of this country's 'ruling classes'" as well as from those who fear that the breadth of the curriculum he outlines will promote shallowness in studies--he rejects them...
...other issue deserves explicit consideration. I have been suggesting that an educated man or woman must have a rather broad understanding of the liberal arts, and this immediately raises the spectre of superficiality. In attempting to achieve breadth, does one necessarily encourage shallowness? Does not the great danger lie in producing young people who believe themselves to be educated, when in reality they have succeeded only in absorbing a few platitudes? If this were the case, one might conclude that a curricular structure emphasizing greater depth in a very few subjects is preferable...
...think that the assumption of a necessary connection between breadth and shallowness is unwarranted. It is the quality of instruction, not the number of courses, that guards against superficiality. Both "general" and "special" education can be superficial or profound. The successful training of intellect requires teachers who believe in the importance of this approach to undergraduate education and who possess the talents to make it work...