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This is an approach that appears to attach more importance to the process of learning than to the substance of what is learned but it does provide a way of coping with the vast increase of knowledge. "The old notion of the generalist who could comprehend all subjects is an...
"Scandinavian Modern: 1880-1980," the dazzling exhibition that opens this week at New York City's Cooper-Hewitt Museum, hits us, therefore, like a massive surprise attack. Some 330 masterworks of furniture, ceramics, glass, metalwork and textiles show that Scandinavian design is not so much a style as a...
At one extreme, Adler's The Paideia Proposal offers an impassioned but simplistic reminder of What Education Is For, Proposing that all high school curricula be revamped into a three-column, 12-year approach, Adler advocates attentive teaching of "acquisition of organized knowledge" (history, languages, science, taught by rote); "development...
While her mother Michelle still complains that "the box" is "not at all aesthetic" and rarely uses it, Isabelle has quickly taken to the new technology. She consults the electronic phone book at least three times a week, calling up lists of music halls, dance studios and movie theaters. "Whenever...
The primary elements of the Paideia proposal are what Adler calls the three columns. These represent the three types of learning that should go on simultaneously throughout all twelve years as well as the styles of teaching required for each. The first consists of the acquisition of fundamental knowledge: history...