Word: vocationalist
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Charting a decisive middle-way between the Hundred Great Books extreme at St. John's and strict vocationalist preparation on the other side of the Education Axis, the College's General Education Program is, despite the condescension of the Hutchins coterie, an inherently original venture.. Like all pioneer endeavors it must experience trial-and-error evolution. The aim at Harvard is to provide all students "as citizens and heirs of a joint culture . . . a common core of knowledge": the aim is further to do this within the framework of modern needs for specialized training. Skeptics who have doubted that...
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