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...your inception, Core, the academic atmosphere is hardly electric these days. In April 2004, this is the most booming declaration your doctors of pedagogy could muster: “It is essential that the Faculty provides students with guidance about the important concepts, texts, and knowledge that might underpin a liberal arts and sciences education.” Might? Core Curriculum, I sense...
...what’s envisioned as your successor, Core, multitudinous choices and lack of focus will metastasize, not shrink. That important knowledge that might be a liberal arts education is, in truth, just a banal consortium of recommended “Harvard College Courses...
...where one myopic offering in your menagerie might focus on those didgeridoos, the Core of tomorrow might undertake a cross-study of flutes in their many incarnations, from the pan-flutes of the Roman and Greek empires to the lesser-known (but no less important) Papuan and Khoisan flutists—perhaps even Bach’s flute sonatas would make a brief appearance. All in the name of a general education...
...choice between the rigor of a survey course on Western history or political philosophy and the promise of an easy “A” offered by the many peripheral courses is exactly why I loathe you, Core Curriculum. By not saying “you must take this,” you have caused us all to abandon those courses which look too hard, too legitimate. How many of your wards graduate without reading Aristotle or Shakespeare or Locke, but having learned of Mongolian architecture and samurai...
...Core, I would love and not loathe you if you had a compelling, guiding purpose. Command me, Core, to take those things I’d rather not take for the sake of my GPA or my attention span; make those who come in our wake study those things that, although it’s been hushed into an open secret, are still thought to be the underpinnings of our civilization...