Word: curriculum
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...current controversy over the Doty Report is not a transient item of interest; it is a crucial debate which may permanently alter the course of Harvard education. It is not a casual modification of curriculum which is at stake, but, rather, a critical (though perhaps unintentional) deviation from the traditional goal of Harvard education--the liberally educated...
Since its founding 57 years ago, Roman Catholic De Paul taught philosophy with the serenity of somnambulism. Its curriculum rested comfortably on the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas, the 13th century Italian theologian who established Aristotelian philosophy as a rational basis for Christian belief. At Chicago's De Paul, as at most U.S. Catholic colleges, modern thinkers were studied to be refuted rather than understood, as if philosophy were a kind of secular theology. Now the university has adopted a radically different approach. Firmly backed by the president, the Very Rev. John R. Cortelyou, a noted comparative endocrinologist...
...teach philosophy and who have a special interest in St. Thomas as a patron saint of their order. Warned another of De Paul's Dominicans: "We are skirting canon law." However, the five laymen in the department, joined by some other priests, backed Kreyche's experimental curriculum...
...always be prepared to study a subject in the sequences and hierarchies organized by the sub-departments, and may find that helping a slum Negro youngster learn English or sitting with an abandoned patient in a mental hospital provides a feeling of personal relation and responsibility lacking in the curriculum. The Peace Corps or civil rights activity may provide similar compensation. Of course this is only a small minority of students, just as only a small minority resist the liberalizing impact of higher education by joining the Young Americans for Freedom and other student right wing cadres. But the former...
...center, which was announced last week by Theodore R. Sizer, Dean of the School of Education, will carry on a long-term cooperative program with the participating school systems, studying social and cultural differences as they affect learning. Hopefully new teaching methods, curriculum materials, and training programs will be developed and will be made part of actual classroom practice as quickly as possible...