Word: curriculum
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...attitude among the Faculty, a member of the educational review's coordinating committee said last month, that "was based on the assumption that 'we know what's right for students.' But the Faculty has lost a lot of confidence and sureness of what's right or wrong for curriculum, and seems to share students' views that it's impossible to know what all students should learn." And in many ways the '60s have made faculty members more reluctant to require, even in the form of courses, anything from students that may provoke discontent. The last three decades since the institutionalization...
...views of what a "proper" education is runs decidedly against the grain of liberalized reforms of the past decade. He has said he believes liberal education has been weakened because of the "exaggerated permissiveness" of recent years. And because the task forces he has set up to review undergraduate curriculum and life take their cues from him--he denies this although everyone involved sees the entire review as his brainchild--their recommendations will undoubtedly reflect a desire to tighten up the educational system...
...cent who don't take advantage, they just drift and need to be given direction," he says. To a certain extent students are able to decide what educational courses they want to pursue, but, Rosovsky believes, as he recently told a gathering of alumni, that the Harvard curriculum is too varied for undergraduates to make intelligent, broadening decisions, "Our curriculum at the moment resembles too much a Chinese menu, a very good menu. But I think that a Chinese menu in the hands of a novice can often result in less than a perfect meal. I would like to supply...
...think that at the moment our curriculum resembles rather too much a Chinese menu at a very good restaurant," he said. "But I think that a Chinese menu in the hands of a novice can often result in less than a perfect meal. I would like to supply a few waiters...
...would not be required. My notion of the way an honor code should function is what happens at the University of Virginia. At initiation, students will be told, "All right, ladies and gentlemen, we don't lie, cheat or steal, and now we'll talk about your curriculum." At West Point, the whole thing is so uptight that it creates an atmosphere of repressiveness. It breeds people looking for violators...