Word: redbook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...natural sciences, students would become acquainted with disciplines other than their own, and would be the richer as individuals, no matter what their ocupation. This idea was embodied in the 1945 report of the Conant Committee on General Education, General Education in a Free Society. Known as the Redbook, the report served as a model for general education programs at colleges across the country...
Since 1945, a number of trends have combined to force undergraduate education away from the broad conception of the Redbook and toward a narrower, more functional conception. The rapid rise in admissions, and in the number of students graduating with honors and going on to graduate school, has lent strength to a point of view which regards Harvard College less as a general preparation for life than a way station on the road to still higher education...
There are many arguments against the kind of general education the Redbook proposed. It can be argued that Harvard should accept the role of preparing students for graduate school and should train them as scholars, because any other role would be unrealistic, given the intellectual level of the student body and the demands of an increasingly specialized society...
...earlier study created General Education at Harvard and set a pattern for similar plans across the country. Recommendations of the Bruner report, formally known as the Report of the Committee on Science in General Education, for the most part reinforced the redbook. A unanimous vote passed these proposals. with almost no changes at a Faculty meeting a month after the report came...
...report. a very doubtful claim unless that General Education and elementary science in certain integrable, interchangeable, or . General Education came on the assumption that these are true, but one or another for at least one course from the eight. The situation directly challenges General Education as conceived in the redbook...