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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...
Undergraduate Council (UC) representatives questioned committee chairs of the Preliminary Report of the Task Force on General Education in a town hall meeting last night, focusing on proposed approaches to science and math. Bass Professor of English Louis Menand and Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons spoke to a group of 50 students that weren’t limited to UC members in Harvard Hall. Calling the core “old-fashioned,” Menand said that the current system fragmented knowledge into specific academic disciplines more suitable for the ivory tower than the outside world...
...General Education recommendations, which were crafted over the summer by a task force co-chaired by Menand and Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons, still have “a lot of room for improvement,” said Menand, the Bass professor of English and American literature and language...