Word: vendler
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Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler says she believes that the impulse to reform is an element of human nature...
...There’s some desire in human beings to redo everything in every generation—departments, general education programs, administrative organization....After 25 years one feels the need for change,” Vendler says...
...Vendler suggests that, regardless of the curricular review’s impact on higher education as a whole, it is the students who will determine the success of Harvard’s new program...
...Core curriculum also; Columbia’s two-year mandatory program in the Western tradition; the University of Chicago’s Great Books curriculum in its time. All you can say is that these schools produced both well-trained and ill-trained students,” says Vendler...
...Vendler hopes to offer her readers, if not a new way to evaluate Yeats, at least a new lens through which to look at his poetry. “In the end,” Vendler says, “a critic can’t renew the process. All they can provide is a new way of looking at an old poet.” But she has helped turn criticism into an art form in and of itself...