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...PAGE REPORT on the core curriculum released by the Faculty two weeks ago marks a major step in the long history of General Education at Harvard. Since Harvard helps set the pace for academic trends, the report could have broader ramifications at schools throughout the country...
...report is the culmination of three-and-a-half years of effort and an attempt by worried professors to devise a scheme to provide a better education for students at Harvard. The central questions--the questions that have historically dominated debates over General Education--remain fairly clear: What is an "educated" person? Who should decide when and how a person is to be educated...
...answers to these complex questions that the curriculum report provides exude a confidence that makes them immediately suspect. The rigidity of the guidelines for the proposed core courses suggests that the Harvard Faculty feels it has a monopoly on the ability to understand the real meaning of the vague concept of education...
...General Education reforms proposed in the report would further divide the five basic academic categories bandied about last year, creating ten specific required areas. The report carefully stipulates how professors must structure these courses, what the aims of these courses must be, and a host of other requriements that would restrict professors teaching core courses from presenting the course material in an innovative and individualistic manner. A standing committee on the core curriculum would monitor the core courses to insure that these courses were kept in accord with the aims of General Education as elucidated in the core report...
Dean Fox said yesterday Weissbecker's report is a response to a question about alternative meal plans raised in a recent CHUL meeting...