Word: core
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...death of a tyrant is typically only the first step towards installing a new one. Caesar’s assassination only succeeded in placing Augustus on the throne. The execution of Louis XVI ended up allowing Napoleon Bonaparte to set up an empire. And now the euthanasia of the Core will only lead to the bondage of Harvard students in a new arbitrary system of General Education...
...arts should teach “ways of learning.” This groundbreaking system envisioned that every student could be a mini-scientist, a mini-philosopher, and in the case of Literature and Arts C, a mini-starving artist. It was the Golden Age for education, and the Core Curriculum was welcomed in the streets as a liberator. Soon, order and happiness grew in the area as the oil flowed to the west from the democratic light of the Middle East?...
When it failed, the Core Curriculum did so not because of students, professors, or the administration, but because of the weakness of its philosophy. The different ways of learning at first sounded quite appealing as a path out of lackluster academia, but like all academic fads ended up replacing orthodox restrictions with restrictions that were even more whimsical and limiting. Classes that didn’t state in their syllabus the goal of making a student a Science B-ian or a Moral Reasoning-itian couldn’t were cast...
According to the Core program, only four courses in the English Department and one course in Scandinavian can provide the “variety of critical and analytical approaches to literature” needed to satisfy the Literature and Arts A requirement. Likewise, tutorials, some of the hardest classes at Harvard, don’t count because they lack a final exam. And because only pedagogical technique matters in Core-world, the material covered has become increasingly specific and trite...
...universe through the lenses of different ideas. Only by understanding the influential ideas of the the past can we grasp why our current ideas exist. The system that best develops this knowledge is a liberal arts system based on great books or great ideas, like Columbia’s Core...