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...Patullo notes that the increasing financial commitment to graduate education he recommends might force Harvard to accept only undergraduates able to pay full tuition. But "An undemocratic Harvard College. . . would do serious injustice to no one," and certainly less harm. Patullo claims than the waste of available resources for original scholarship...
FROM ONE perspective, it is easy to sympathize with Patullo's frustration in the face of Harvard's haphazard planning. President Bok's fund for innovation in education is a convenient case in point...
...many ways, Patullo is merely articulating start many Faculty members and administrators them to have believed for sometime, that given the social value of research and the importance of the scholar's role, the only people who should be at Harvard are willing apprentices to the great minds. Patullo suggests choosing a smaller undergraduate body, academically able, but also having definite motivation toward academic pursuit. Don't worry about extracurricular life, he assures us. There are bound to be would be scholars interested also in journalism and sports...
...becomes necessarily restricted, and proposals which plan significant changes in the relationship between students and instructors, between students and the departments or between one department and another must appear too broadly conceived. And this absence of "a single animating philosophy" does not mean a value-free system. Rather, as Patullo states, Harvard remains guided by a "strong sense of tradition and basic commitment to educational excellence" of I would add, a particularly elitist and custom-bound sort...
...HOWEVER, Patullo's particular plan would undermine the very quality of independence that is the foundation of vigorous, scholarship and the supposedly unfettered exploration of ideas. It is only through a university's commitment to teaching and to developing people as people, regardless of their particular academic interests or social and economic background, that it can hope to provide any moral leadership for society of to urge people to pursue unexplored avenues of thought...