Word: broad
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...introduction to sociology and psychology, Social Sciences 111 a course in Far Eastern Civilization. If taking them constitutes a general education, why not permit students who have already assimilated the material to pursue it at a more advanced level, in courses that will retain the same broad interdepartmental nature...
...things often happen to comets when they pass close to the sun. In 1846 a comet split into two pieces in a latter of days. In 1744 a comet emerged from behind the sun with five talis where one had been before. And in 1843 comet was visible in broad daylight: While about half a dozen comets are discovered in an average year, spectacular ones such as these come very rarely...
...with a good middle-class background will do in middle-class schools." But so far, nobody has devised a "culture free" test that is particularly useful. Besides, such a test might be pointless since the aim of testing is to help guide children toward success in a culture of broad middle-class values. "If a child does poorly on an aptitude test because he comes from the wrong side of the tracks," says the Educational Testing Service's vice president, Henry S. Dyer, "it isn't the test that is unfair; it is the hard facts of social...
...might be argued, to begin with, that the very existence of independent Graduate School Education is unwarranted, that the effort to form a broad conception of educational study the basis of an institutional unit of the university had best abandoned in favor of a deliberate fragmentation of such by and its absorption by other branches of the university. The various scholarly and research disciplines now represented the School could well, it might be thought, be returned to several Arts and Science departments with which they are naturally affiliated and could continue, from there, to apply themselves to the sphere...
What then, in sum, do we recommend, as to orientation? The guiding conception of educational study to which our school has in recent years been committed seems to us fundamentally sound, its broad interpretation of education superior to any alternative that we have considered. The policy of cultivating diverse approaches and outlooks seems to us healthy, and indeed essential for continued health. Such features of the School need, however, to be strengthened and further developed; they require our continuing efforts to support and expand their application in all phases of the School's work, for they represent; ideals which...