Word: core
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...page text, Bennett assails academia for offering students a "smorgasbord" instead of a fundamental, structured curriculum, and he points to Harvard's Core Curriculum as a glaring example of this failure...
...think students would benefit from a real core curriculum--i.e., a set of fundamental courses, ordered, purposive, coherent. I cannot discern such a core curriculum here," Bennett says...
...have studied the Harvard catalog, and I agree that under the heading of the Core Curriculum we find an agglomeration of courses, many of them obviously meaty and important, taught by eminent scholars, on a wide variety of subjects," Bennett says...
...minimum, Bennett says, a solid core curriculum must encompass "the basic body of knowledge which universities once took it upon themselves as their obligation to transmit, under the name of a liberal education...
...seemed most committed to the interests of the average person, rather than those of the Establishment. That is the classic strategy of populism, born a century ago. Though the movement has zigzagged through the political landscape, and though some conservatives now claim a share of its legacy, populism's core remains its opposition to assorted elites. In Maryland, for instance, the voting records of Representatives Barbara Mikulski and Michael Barnes are both strongly liberal. Mikulski, the shrill voice of blue-collar Baltimore, easily bested Barnes, the urbane, bloodless spokesman of upscale Montgomery County...