Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more restricted past rather than as an opportunity and a responsibility for a permanently satisfying future. I would emphasize this the more because I have neither space nor qualification to elaborate upon it. My contribution to the discussion is better confined to another element, the relation between the curriculum of secondary and of higher education, which I believe to be a consideration second only to the personal equation...
...girls, not subjects! The college teacher, in deciding where the division shall be made between secondary and collegiate work in his department, may not be keenly aware of the problems of secondary teaching in this very field, much less of the relations between the several fields represented in the curriculum of the secondary school. Probably everyone will agree that specialization,--the only answer which the adult mind can make to the complexity and range of modern civilization,--has no place in the secondary school. But it is less easy to agree on what constitutes specialization in this or that subject...
Without attempting to discuss the details of the curriculum study to which I have referred, I will only remark that we have first considered a six-year secondary curriculum sub-divided into two period characterized by somewhat different trends. The first three years are exploratory. The pupil is brought into touch with all the major fields of learning; but his attention is not confined to the acquisition of facts and disciplines to the neglect of the appreciative side of his personality. During the later years there is a gradual change of emphasis. The pupil has been led to try himself...
Harvard undergraduates have been casting a critical eye at their University's curriculum and have brought to light the same inconsistency at Cambridge that President Hibben pointed out at Princeton in his annual report last fall. At Harvard as at Princeton, the CRIMSON says, the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science are given without regard to a student's college course but are determined by the nature of his entrance credits. Thus, a man who has entered with four years of Latin and who subsequently enters the Department of Chemistry is graduated with an A.B., while...
Some changes were also made in the present curriculum of the school. The course treating with the contemporary drama will be divided into the usual we sections with a half year each to the European and American theatre. This course, however, will be given but once a week in meetings of two hours duration. The first hour is to be devoted to lecturing by the instructor while the second part of the period will be given over to discussion with emphasis on criticism of plays then current...