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...search for order, Lowell turned to specialization??not general education. It was not until World War II that Harvard established a general education curriculum. University President James B. Conant ’14 vested then-Dean of the Faculty Paul H. Buck with an epic task: to chair a committee that would reevaluate secondary and higher American education. The new initiative involved promoting and preserving democratic ideals. The resulting manifesto, the Red Book, not only proposed an answer for how to mold students into educated citizens, but also how to mold a more cohesive world community. Thousands...
...president who succeeded Eliot—Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877—moved away from Eliot’s elective system, instead requiring students to declare concentrations. In the search for order, Lowell turned to specialization??not general education...
...disparagement of “professional” expertise bleeds into the academic world. The conclusions of Harvard’s ongoing curricular review presume that the pursuit of expertise is a pathology Harvard must help undergraduates resist. The 2004 report identified “specialization?? and “professionalization” as problems of higher education today. These dangers motivate the proposals now being implemented: delayed concentration choice, which makes concentration programs less deep; incentives for secondary fields; and discouragement of honors programs. Money is dirty: Students preparing for law, medicine, or business—including...
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