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...knowledge—with a program focused on subject matter. Over a dozen professors spoke—some endorsed the proposal, while others rose to criticize its rationale and the five broad areas of inquiry it would create. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, the other co-chair of the general education committee, characterized the overall faculty reception as positive. “There’s clarity and enthusiasm for this option,” Menand said of the subject-matter model. Simmons said she expected further discussion of that rationale between...
...revisions, according to Nowski. The Undergraduate Council (UC), which appoints the students who serve on the CUE, held a town hall meeting at the end of last month on the general-education report with task force co-chairs Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand and Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons. The meeting gave council members and undergraduates the opportunity to share their views and ask questions of the co-chairs. The preliminary report established the “idea that general education is meant to tie what we learn at Harvard to our lives after...
Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand may be a scholar of pragmatism, but the General Education Task Force he is co-chairing is entirely dogmatic. The preliminary report that the task force released last month refuses to engage with the big questions surrounding general education at Harvard College...
Both Eliot and the pragmatists were, broadly, students of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821. What they inherited from him was what Menand terms the “disestablishmentarian impulse”: the distrust of all fixities, the crusade against all institutions and orthodoxies...
...world. Knowledge advanced through dialectic, not digestion: “Each mind reflects differently…and…reality doesn’t stand still long enough to be accurately mirrored. Peirce’s conclusion was that knowledge must therefore be social.” Menand certainly knew this. I’m quoting his characterization of Peirce...