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...series of motifs to 1,650 adults and children, many of them illiterate, in 11 different countries. The red background conveys danger; a skull and crossbones and a trefoil emanating rays warns of a threat to life; a running man tells observers to keep away. "We can't teach the world about radiation," says Carolyn MacKenzie, a radiation specialist who helped develop the new symbol. "But, for the price of a sticker, we can help save lives...
...important too, of course, as many others have pointed out already, that we teach our students enough economics to read the business page, enough science to read the Science Times, and enough sense of irony to be able to get the jokes in the New Yorker. But when we do this we must be sure to keep it in the context of the overall purpose of a general education: to give students the tools for thinking seriously about what they should aspire to in attempting to live the best life possible for them. If we do this we will retain...
...clear a generation before. In particular, the traditional model, in its traditional form, is ill-suited to our modern age. That is because it takes for granted agreement about what constitutes the “good life,” and consequently about what a general education program should teach, when such agreement is precisely what contemporary society lacks. Writing in their book, “General Education in a Free Society,” the authors of the 1945 curricular reform at Harvard lamented: “As recently as a century ago no doubt existed about [the] purpose...
...recently published Report of the Task Force on General Education has this idea squarely in view. Its authors wrote, “General education is the place where students are brought to understand how everything that we teach in the arts and sciences relates to their lives and to the world they will confront.” There are various interpretations of this and related sentences in the report, some of which have been used to criticize it as an instrumentalist account of general education. But it seems to me better interpreted as the proposal that general education take place...
...Faust said that though the presidency will likely prevent her from doing scholarly work, she hopes to continue to teach her conference course this spring on the Civil War. She said she will focus the next few months on filling soon-to-be vacant deanships at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Medical School, Design School, and with her departure, the Radcliffe Institute...