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...something to do with writing the sections on the sciences and mathematics in the 1945 report, General Education in a Free Society (The Redbook). It seems a little strange, therefore, to see those sections quoted now as though they represent an enduring gospel, and departing from them involves a heresy, one perhaps in which I am myself participating. We had, of course, no unique access to truth at the time that report was written, and that was about twenty years ago. We face another world, another stage in the development of science, a new type of student: even I have...
Actually the very paragraph in the Redbook from which Mr. Cohen quotes the beginning, ends with this very thought: "The claim of General Education is that the history of science is part of science. So are its philosophy, its great literature, and its social and intellectual context. The contribution of science instruction to the life of the university and to society should include these elements, since science includes them. A science course so constructed as to encompass these elements makes an important contribution to General Education. It need not by that token make a poorer contribution to an education...
...Redbook rightly noted that "a general education in science needs to be provided for the future scientist or technologist as well as for the general student." Thus there should also exist science Gen Ed courses which exploit the greater scientific sophistication of the concentrator in examing the three central issues of science...
...based, though not covering the substance of the further work; e.g. the chemical calculations taught in Chemistry 2 are needed for organic chemistry, but Chemistry 2 includes no organic chemistry. Both kinds of courses will supply the first-hand experience with the science on which the "insights" the Redbook desires can be based...
...Doty Committee might consider requiring, in addition to one introductory science course, mathematical proficiency equivalent to that provided by, say, Math. 1. The Redbook and Holton emphasized how useful, and often how essential, mathematics is for a direct approach to scientific problems; scientific literacy without the concepts of function, rate of change, and limit, and what these mean in operation, is subtile indeed...