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...appointment of a respected chemist to chair the present committee is recognition that it is among-scientists that the Gen Ed program most needs a new mandate. But the spiritual energy of the original program has run down elsewhere too. Conceived at the peak of the war effort, the Redbook was drafted with a sense of democratic mission that has since become dated...
...could catch an allusion to the college of the German universities in President Conant's charge to the original Redbook Committee in 1943: "Neither the mere acquisition of information nor the development of special skills and talents can give the broad basis of understanding which is essential if our civilization is to be preserved." "Our purpose, is to cultivate in the largest possible number of our future citizens an appreciation of both the responsibilities and benefits which come to them because they are Americans and are free...
chairman of the Redbook committee...
member of the Redbook committee its predecessor. Whereas the original committee consulted with over 80 educators from colleges, universities, secondary schools, labor unions and industry; the present committee has largely limited its interviews to the Gen Ed "shop," i.e. to those concerned with administering the program at Harvard. Whereas the Redbook Committee published a 267-page volume addressed to a national audience, the Doty Committee thinks more in terms of a fifty-page pamphlet which, though it may be of interest to other colleges, will be written largely-in Harvardspeak. And, whereas the 1945 committee prescribed changes in curriculum without...
When at the time the Redbook was written I searched for intellectual matrices within which the facts and procedures of science might find pattern, relevance, and meaning. I looked to the history, philosophy, literature, and cultural contributions of the sciences to provide these matrices. Now, twenty years later, I think we have something far better. This is the unity and relevance that science now finds in nature itself. Science is undergoing a profound revolution, and this is at the heart of it. We can now see the universe in a hierarchy of states of organization of matter, stretching without essential...