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When the Faculty voted for the new curriculum in the spring of 2007, it marked a dual-sided commitment, Faust said...
...just wanted to mark this transition today as one of both continuity and change,” she said. “The Faculty made a choice embedded with Harvard’s storied past, but you also called for a curriculum that will be new and forward-looking...
Hoping to attend medical school, the Pittsburgh, Pa. native studied neurobiology at the College, working to complete the pre-med curriculum. Outside of lab and lectures, Joo stayed involved in the medical community as a member of the Harvard Cancer Society, serving as a regular volunteer at Massachusetts General Hospital...
With his comment that "I learned a lot of calculus, which hasn't proved that useful in my career," Isaacson gets at a key reason our schools aren't succeeding. The question isn't whether we have adequate standards; it's whether the curriculum prepares our students to be successful. What are the skills our young people need to be successful in today's society? Don't they need to know how to communicate, cooperate and problem-solve? Shouldn't they understand what it means to be punctual, responsible, committed and courteous? Shouldn't they have a thorough understanding...
...Universities like Harvard still purport to teach the liberal arts, those studies worthy of a free man. Such a curriculum once itself implied an ideal, an end. The liberal arts, indeed, have had as their object to cultivate the “gentleman,” in the sense that the word implies a distinction, a high standard that presumably all, and probably most, can never attain—and not as we often use the term today, to welcome every male individual who passes through the door of a public restroom. A liberal education aspires to make men?...