Word: gens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Education hope that a citizen might have some comprehension of the problems of science and scientists is balked here. The sciences thwart General Education, which is pointless if it cannot teach the three areas of knowledge on a roughly equal level. Scientists in the University rarely agree to give Gen Ed courses, and the notable exceptions, men like Kemble, Cohen, Nash, Holton, and LeCorbeillier are left to keep on teaching the courses year in and year...
Numbers tell part of the story. Compare the Gen Ed course offerings this year. Lower-level courses were spread about equally among the three areas, but second group courses were rare in the sciences...
Time is the greatest. One Gen Ed committee member, who has strongly argued the need of more science in the program concedes...
...burden the scientist carries today in keeping up with advances in this field, doing important research, and giving direction to advanced students is very heavy. By and large, classroom teaching of the Gen Ed sort seems to the scientist apart from his main scientific concerns...
Some scientists do teach Gen Ed courses, and their example seems to argue that a main concern of the scientific community is indeed giving the non-scientist some general understanding of this field of knowledge...