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...lack of "fundamental ferment in the humanities" at most universities. According to Sizer, "too much university scholarship in the humanities is sterile and out of touch with our culture...
...obvious differences between the official culture and the mass culture." Sizer called for limiting the "barbarism caused by indiscriminate and tasteless overexposure" to the humanities, and for an attempt to relate children's real experiences to Western values...
...conventional class-teaching methods, which may not be suitable to the humanities. "Our school organization," Sizer said, "is governed more by the necessities for the control of the students than for the logic of subject matter or the needs of children. In all probability," he continued, "any step forward will be a radical...
...Sizer also decried the tendency of schools to suppress individuality. He explained that the regimentation and organization of students on the basis of apparent similarities, rather than intellectual and social characteristics, individuality and hinders the teaching of esthetic and ethical values...
Although the report is primarily concerned with teaching on the elementary and secondary levels, Sizer speculated in a telephone interview last night that the report might have "happy side effects" at Harvard...