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...shared, where values and approaches are held in common across the disciplines. Yet Harvard’s central tool for shaping undergraduate education, the Core Program, has for years failed at its goal of introducing students to these shared values and to the various “approaches to knowledge?? that education offers. The Core unnecessarily restricts students’ choice in shaping their academic careers and diminishes the quality of the education for which they have paid. It should be abolished and replaced by a distribution requirement, so that future classes will not be similarly shortchanged...
...philosophy of the Core Program—that students should encounter a variety of approaches to knowledge rather than be forced to master a specific body of knowledge??is sound. But it is impossible to see the substance of the current Core Program as the program sees itself, namely as “an attempt to say what it means to be educated today.” Rather than teach approaches to knowledge by example, requiring students to take classes in the various disciplines, the Core sets apart a few courses from the rest and declares that...
...reason to fear an undermining of collective bargaining. And students should also be represented to contribute their voice. Though PSLM members should have a share of representation—not as a reward for their unjustified seizure of a University building, but in recognition of their extensive involvement and knowledge??other student representatives should be selected through existing representative bodies such as the Undergraduate Council and the governing boards of the graduate schools. We are concerned at reports that an independent group of students has already inquired about membership on the committee; though we do not doubt these...
...predecessors (on the occasion of the awarding of his honorary degree in September 1943) that the “empires of the future are the empires of the mind,” the prophetic tone was clear. But the possible danger is also obvious. Access to information and knowledge??and, more importantly, dialogue—is necessary for the possibility of democracy. If we are to act as citizens, we must be able not simply to speak but to be heard and reply as well...
...Sway lo, do-si-do like you loco” 14) “Tell me, tell me, the words to define / The way I feel about someone so fine” 15) “Earned his Masters Degree from Harvard College / Built his house from his architect knowledge?...