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...GE will be expensive, yes. But the efforts of the Faculty to promote the new GE program seem likely to produce far more than half success. The Faculty is approaching the questions of personnel and incentives with an enlightenment that would warm the Special Committee's heart. The scheme of split-appointments for GE teachers means that they will be able to devote much time and energy to the new courses; and in general GE instructors are especially skilled in the art of teaching, as distinct from the art of research. In addition, small sections, stimulating term papers, and more...
...GE No Panacea...
...chapter titled "General Education--A Complete Answer?," the report criticizes the Administration for concentrating too much on the content of GE and other courses. Instead the College must come to "reconsider the more basic questions of personnel and incentives to actual learning...
...General Education: "It is our belief, however, that a serious deficiency in a Harvard Education is also a serious deficiency of the GE report; it is a failure to focus on method and on the problem of eliciting active student participation...
Last week's promotions also signified a new concept of the way a teacher spends his time. Because each of the appointees will divide his working hours between his academic specialty and GE, there will be no segregated faculties of specialists on the one hand and general educators on the other. Such segregation has been tried at other schools, generally with two results: intra-faculty friction and decreased efficiency among general education instructors...