Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This growth of the curriculum raises . . . the main problem of this report, which has to do, not with the thousand influences dividing man from man, but with the necessary bonds and common ground between them. Democracy, however much by ensuring the right to differ it may foster difference--particularly in a technological age which further encourages division of function and hence difference of outlook--yet depends equally on the binding ties of common standards...
Still More Diverse Curriculum Favored...
...Committee, in the case of high schools, does not view a tightening in the curriculum as the shield against these dangers. It suggests, indeed, "even a greater diversity than exists at present in the still largely bookish curriculum, since nothing else will match the actual range of intelligence and background among students...
...addition, however, it suggests a need for some principle of unity, since without it the curriculum flies into pieces and even the studies of any one student are atomic or unbalanced or both...
...students would be metamorphosed into engineers. He said cautiously: "I thought we ought to see what it's all about. A student can get many interesting ideas from the Schillinger method . . . but he needs a firm classical foundation first. [The course] will not be included in our winter curriculum...