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These fruitful forays, far more than the Core Curriculum, taught me how to think at Harvard...
...expand the Faculty by 15 percent, and the ongoing curricular review aims to increase faculty-student interactions by raising the number of small classes and promoting opportunities that foster such dialogue. But most of the curricular review has focused on sexier issues like general education. The future of the Core Curriculum is admittedly important, but expending so much breath on the structure of the literature requirement misses the true problem with a Harvard College education.Which is a shame because, despite some limited success, Harvard is still failing on the whole. While some star professors—including...
...Greenhouse says.Greenhouse also once had a five-foot-long pet iguana named Madonna.“Linda is just a very nice, gentle person. It belies a very tough mind,” Jones says. “She’ll ask tough questions and cut to the core of things. In addition to speaking at Class Day, She will also be awarded the Radcliffe Institute Medal on Radcliffe Day this Friday. Recent Class Day speakers at HLS include CNN talk show host Larry King, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, now the U.S. attorney general, and former presidential adviser...
...current general education requirement, the Core Curriculum, was established in 1979 after six years of careful consideration. Its guiding theme was that students should be inducted into the special “ways of thinking” that characterized the various disciplines. Knowledge was expanding rapidly, and the prevailing idea that students should study a common body of material was becoming increasingly questioned. Some of what now seems arcane in the Core can be explained by intellectual controversies that loomed large when the program was first developed. Today, as the disciplines have grown and changed, the structure of the Core...
There is a great deal to be said for this proposal. To be sure, it does not include requirements in moral or quantitative reasoning, as does the current version of the Core. But it does represent very well the transition we are making to a more fluid understanding of how knowledge is structured and how students might be encouraged to learn...