Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most important educational questions unanswered. High sounding phrases about the values of Western culture do not explain why the liberal arts tradition has decayed, or why specialization has grown to dominate academic life. An examination of the history of liberal education at Harvard suggests that the liberal arts ideal may be threatened by social and educational trends which a core curriculum alone would be powerless to reverse...
...Society," immediately conjures up the specter of the Fascist society that America had just helped defeat in war. When President Conant in 1936 called for an educational program that could resist the "wave of anti-intellectualism sweeping around the world," the purpose and the value of the liberal arts ideal was very clear. But while liberal arts has continued to embody American values, these values no longer seem as noble as they did after the defeat of Hitler. In the '60s, the Vietnam War came to dominate the American political scene and the education Harvard designed for a "community...
What you will see is bodily grace, harmonious proportions and a quintet of hoopsters from Harvard who embody the ideal aims of athletics--recreation, enjoyment and the Classical conception of a sound mind in a sound body...
Most parents say the benefits of raising a family at Harvard outweigh the difficulties. "I would hope that the students feel they would profit from seeing a family around," Fincke says. "Not that I would expect us to be the ideal family--maybe the opposite--but I like to give people another image of a family than that of their own parents. I wish I'd had more contact with married people when I was an undergraduate...
...1960s a spectacular popularization of ethnic pride took place, and cultural heterogeneity emerged as the new ideal. Bilingual-education legislation, passed by Congress in 1974, declared that non-English-speaking children should be given the chance to study in their own language in order to smooth the transition into U.S. life. Going a step further, the act also set up a number of bicultural programs, so that children could reinforce, rather than shed, their primary cultural heritage. Going even further than that, neighboring Canada has been officially bilingual since 1969 ?although the separatist provincial government in Quebec has decreed...