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...general education should provide undergraduates with relevant instruction. But “relevant” does not necessarily mean “immediately practical,” especially at an institution of liberal arts. To treat literature and the arts as mere tools for the investigation of different societies??essentially, the philosophy of the “Cultural Traditions and Cultural Change” category—suppresses the innate value of novels, poems, symphonies, plays, paintings, and a host of other works of art. Surely, the appreciation of beauty, artistic achievement, and the richness of the human...
...conducted, not just to the institution he was affiliated, but to the collective national egos of China and South Korea. Many scholars have blamed the East’s Confucian philosophical grounding, with proverbs such as “Scholars are respected above all,” for its societies?? distorted perception of scientists. Such a maxim is alien to the Western tradition, but the cartoonish quality that our society imposes on scientists is much the same, just in a different direction.No scientist is any more worthy of worship than he is of reviling. Scientists are humans, above...
...this biggest question of history,” Diamond said. Diamond argued that the historical fate of different cultures has been based not on biological disparities but rather on geographical factors. Diamond’s popular books, “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies?? and “Collapse: How Civilizations Choose to Fail or Succeed,” have posited similar claims. According to Diamond, the historical dominance of Eurasian and particularly European cultures has nothing to do with any questions of personality or intellectual capacity, as historians had once asserted. Instead...
...Courses in General Education”—yearlong portal courses that would cover a swath of subject matter in an interdisciplinary way.Both of these proposals stand to make Harvard students better educated. Though students can still get away with fulfilling their “Study of Societies?? requirement with three very specific courses, it is likely that the best, most easily accessible courses will be those designed with the general education requirement in mind. This is the essential genius of the committee’s recommendations. Short of imposing a strict “Great Books?...
When provided with copies of the piece, though, professors of courses like Foreign Cultures 78: “Understanding Islam and Contemporary Muslim Societies?? made plenty of pointed observations about the author...