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...report also bluntly acknowledges that few Harvard students intend to pursue academic careers and that the Core’s current focus on teaching “modes of inquiry?? might be misguided...
...explained that the proposed concentrations will “more accurately reflect focused areas of inquiry?? in current biological research...
Therein lies the problem: guessing isn’t science. Processes of inquiry??especially those of science—are only productive when they yield valid, reliable results, and only strong evidence can provide that necessary validity. Anyone can guess anything they want, and perhaps those ideas have a place in a philosophy classroom. But in a modern science classroom, ideas are worthless if they can’t be defended empirically, which the so-called “theory” of intelligent design cannot...
...loathe you firstly, Core Curriculum, because you know not who you are. Once you were a Christian education, then a liberal and general education, and now you are assorted “modes of inquiry??—a term that would be vapid even if it delivered on its promised goods. Is it not baneful that you, Core, are telling lies, that your “approaches to knowledge” exist in name only, that your pedagogy is a ruse which keeps asunder the rigor of departmental courses and the silliness of your look-alikes...
More than 25 years after the birth of the Core, students are now seeing a rejection of the “modes of inquiry?? approach to education that typified the 1978 concept of a liberal arts education. Instead, Harvard is returning to its more traditional pre-Core roots. That today’s Harvard College Curricular Review calls to replace the Core’s fragmented approaches to learning illustrates the the perennial problem of balancing academic guidance with academic freedom...