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...however, is that Summers was overly optimistic. Not only do many Harvard students lack the necessary literacy in the natural sciences, students can and do graduate from the College without encountering either Shakespeare or Kant—and without a basic understanding of or exposure to many of the world??s great intellectual achievements. If Summers wishes to leave an academic mark upon the College, he should work with the Faculty to reform undergraduate education on a fundamental level, combining the abolition of the current Core Curriculum and stronger instruction in science with a new requirement that would...
...Core and its replacement with a distribution requirement would be a significant step toward improving undergraduate education at Harvard, it should not be the only step. It is entirely possible to meet all of the Core requirements while still avoiding some of the most important elements of the world??s intellectual heritage...
...texts. A student’s best writing will come when he or she is intimately engaged with a text and genuinely enjoys working with it. Good writing requires good thinking, and good thinking requires something to think about. There can be no better material than the world??s classic works to provoke thought, discussion and enthusiasm for writing...
First, Hagel talked of a “protect and prevent stage”—what the U.S. is experiencing now. Second, said Hagel, comes the “interconnect stage”—when the U.S. works to bring the world??s people closer together...
Troop expressed disappointment that America has “perpetuated a tremendous amount of violence around the world?? during this month...