Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strenuously object to your undocumented attack on the public school curriculum...
...second Pusey position with which Bartley takes issue is that religion should be "a unifying force in the curriculum." Christianity is certainly unfitted to play this role, Bartley contends. "There are too many different Christianities-even at Harvard Divinity School-for Christianity to act as a system on which Western men might practically agree today, whatever its unifying power half a millennium ago . . . The greatest of those who are 'trying to bring it up to date,' Paul Tillich, is regarded as a heretic by many others who wish to return it to fundamentalism or Thomism...
...headed the student body at Mount Airy and led a movement to advise the faculty on revision of the curriculum. "The seminary has caught up with him now," says President Emeritus Luther D. Reed. "He was simply ahead of the faculty in those days...
...ordering up more science courses. [But] a few important steps can be taken by state and local authorities. Most of our state teachers' colleges should be abolished as such and converted into liberal-arts colleges, with subordinate education departments. There must also be some drastic upgrading of curriculum requirements...
...training foreign Communists to take over in their old homelands when the Russians won the war. The first odd thing about Tom Red's schooldays was that the hero had to change his name (he chose Linden). It was one step in the dehumanization process to which the curriculum was bent. His old pals from Moscow greeted him as a stranger. It was a rule; no one was to know anything about anybody...