Word: breadths
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...hand, the Committee cites the high level of preparation among freshmen and uses this as an argument for Gen Ed sequences in depth. On the other hand, the Committee feels that the present program should rectify its omission of important segments of modern thought, suggesting the need for greater breadth in the program. Thus, even in the Committee's most fundamental recommendations, a contradiction between breadth and depth is evident...
...Literature. He should be given the vocabulary in each of the four large fields of knowledge which will encourage him to delve further into that area and be able to organize his thoughts when he does so. In short, the generally educated man is distinguished not by the breadth of what he knows, but by this ability to comprehend and assimilate a broad (general, if you will) range of material...
...disagree with the goals of General Education. In a college which views a liberal arts education as two-pronged, general and departmental, it is clearly the role of the college to provide students with an antidote for the pressures of specialization and premature professionalism, to offer an education of breadth rather than depth (as in the departments...
Theortically, the means for gaining the education-in-breadth goal of Gen Ed range from "totalitarianism," a core system in which every Harvard student takes exactly the same basic courses, to complete laissezfaire, whereby a student is required only to take some courses outside his own field of concentration. In 1945, the famous "Redbook," General Education in a Free Society, embraced a close approximation to the former plan, defining the word general as both "shared"--students taking the same lower-level courses with little choice in fulfilling upper-level requirements--and "philosophical," denoting the historic themes of Western Civilization...
...James Joyce had lived 20 years longer he would have produced as his chef d'oeuvre, Courses of Instruction for Harvard and Radcliffe. Such a rich vision of reality, so wide a breadth of knowledge, such stark symbolism is indeed beyond the reach of any contemporary writer. Today the CRIMSON literati have pooled their talents to analyze the T. Th. (S.) sections of the master-work and help all you striving Daedaluses reach the equanimity of Leopold Bloom...