Word: mendelsohn
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...Core identified a broad range of slices of the fundamental areas a liberal education ought to include," says Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the history of science. "It was not a broad cluster of subjects, but dealt with knowledge within well-defined and interesting areas...
...Mendelsohn, who taught a Gen Ed course, and continues teaching in the Core today, offers his conclusions on the evolution of a liberal education at Harvard over the last half-century...
...Basically, the Core program does indeed put out a very good education," Mendelsohn says. "A student who goes through the process is better educated than one who went through a generation ago."CrimsonHector U. Velazquez...
...sense, textbooks are not conducive to the classes that I teach because I like students to engage in the material themselves and probe the material for their own points of view," says Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, who has been at Harvard since 1960. "A standardized textbook tends to predigest material...
...Mendelsohn says that he looks for books or articles that have "a good story that is well-told...