Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year St. John's redhaired, natty President Stringfellow Barr, ex-Rhodes Scholar and onetime Chicago professor, picked out the 100 greatest classics, let freshmen choose whether they would begin under the new curriculum or the old elective system. Chosen authors, some of whom are represented by more than one book...
...President does not there set down an integrated and meaningful scheme for the four-year curriculum. On the contrary, he dates the beginning of our current intellectual anarchy a century back and he predicts the achievement of "an educational basis for a unified, coherent culture suited to a democratic country in a scientific age" a century ahead. Today, the educational program which Mr. Lewis seeks does not exist...
Readers who penetrate its obscurities, however, find that Mr. Richards makes shrewd sense. Aiming to teach students to think by a logical examination of the meaning of words, he proposes that rhetoric, grammar and logic be restored to the modern school curriculum. But he would teach these subjects in a new way: not the rules of grammar but the reasons for the rules...
...short, it seems to me trifling to an almost fantastic degree to editorialize about the advisability of making History 1 compulsory. The real topic for discussion is, how shall we recover some integrated and meaningful scheme for the four-year curriculum at Cambridge? What should a B.A. signify? The inarticulate and confusion which characterizes the undergraduate attitude today is, I think, not only unfortunate, but in a world of rapidly evaporating liberalism, highly dangerous. Sincerely, Richard W. B. Lewis...
...Obscenity, with which Nazis smear Jews and priests, is part of the curriculum. "The Stunner, which writes almost exclusively about sexual outrages, bedroom gossip and scandal, is read in the schools to children between 6 and 14." Copies hang on classroom walls. Result: "Pupils have become possessed by pathological sexual aberrations." Nazi children are taught that motherhood is a duty, even of unmarried women, and "the number of illegitimate pregnancies and births among the members of the State Youth is tremendous." There is even a standard form for applications by youthful fathers to be declared of age so they...