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Many science professors have felt that the historical approach is not in fact the best method of teaching science in general education, and have been reluctant to work in courses based on the 1945 plan, Finley added. They object to courses in which such material is taught by a non-scientist...
...John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, chairman of the Committee on General Education, said yesterday that the change also reflects the conclusion of the 1959 Bruner Report that Gen Ed courses in Natural Science should "derive more directly from the logic and substance of science itself...
According to Finley, this recommendation has "increasingly overshadowed" the opinion of the 1945 Gen Ed committee, whose report urged a Natural Science course oriented in the "social and intellectual context" of scientific ideas...
...Finley emphasized, however, that Natural Science courses offered next year and in the future will not entirely ignore the 1945 statement that "the history of science is a part of science...
Atleast one Faculty member, John H. Finley, Jr., Master of Eliot House, the concept of a three-year education. Speaking in the discussion after Wilcox had completed his report, Finley said that many students should have a "victorious" fourth year--one in which they had mastered some of the difficulties of college education--to cap their stay at the University...