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...Core Curriculum, at the center of the liberal education we receive at the College, was never designed to cover a specific list of texts or to convey a set body of facts. Instead, it was designed to teach “approaches to knowledge?? that would allow students to understand the methods of inquiry employed by the different disciplines and to apply these methods themselves once they have left the University’s gates...
...acceptable courses in order to graduate. Core courses are frequently far larger than their departmental counterparts, with all the impersonal bureaucracy that large classes bring. Smaller, more intensive or higher-level departmental courses would be equally effective (if not more so) at communicating “approaches to knowledge??—yet they are often marked off-limits to undergraduates with limited space in their schedules for electives...
This shortcoming does Harvard’s undergraduates a grave disservice. When students are welcomed into the “company of educated men and women” at Commencement, does it mean that they have achieved an understanding of the various “approaches to knowledge??—or at least enough understanding to receive passing grades in the Core? Or are there any works or ideas with which “educated men and women” can be expected to be familiar? We believe that there are indeed certain texts and contexts that...
...would think that college students who spend four years learning “approaches to knowledge?? would be familiar enough with these methods to be suspicious upon encountering the hoax—or at least would check their sources. But some of them, less trusting of major media outlets than of a pseudonymous Internet post, bought it hook, line and sinker...
Rudenstine’s message of the day—the search for knowledge??flowed through the day’s events, as speakers touched on the importance of education and the impact of the Harvard experience...