Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale had been giving serious consideration to the problems raised in the "Blackmer Report" even before it appeared in finished form. The Report this fall of the Presidents' Committee on General Education, which had been studying the problem since 1952, proposed sweeping changes in the curriculum, which adopted much of the later report's spirit and some of its recommendations...
...learning to the New World, and it has been Harvard more than any other institution that has nourished it and made it grow. Had its founders been lesser men, prey to some of the practical nonsense that plagues many a U.S. campus today, they might have set up a curriculum of Forest Clearing & House Building, with possible electives in Indian Affairs and Musketry. Instead, they made a decision that has set the tone of U.S. higher education ever since. The purpose of their college, they declared, was "to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity...
While the Harvard of President James Bryant Conant was placing the official tamp on general education, President Pusey of Lawrence was deepening his own curriculum in his own way. For one thing, ie started a freshman-studies course in which scientists, sociologists, economists, historians and men of the humanities studied and taught great books together...
Currently, a student must take one extra course during his four years in the College if he is a member of an ROTC unit. In the Harvard curriculum of four courses per year, ROTC credits fill 23 percent of the total course requirements, far more than they do at most universities. The idea underlying the University's four course requirement is that by working at such a rate, a student will be able to devote more time to each course. Consequently, the intellectual caliber of Harvard courses is ordinarily higher. And when the military courses are compared with these other...
...along with people," of almost everything except acquiring knowledge. The "educators of educators" themselves, in their unguarded moments, will sometimes admit that colleges of education do not attract superior students. They ascribe this to poor pay scales in the public schools, but never to the fact that their own curriculum provides absolutely no interest or challenge to intelligent people...