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...wrong, Core Curriculum? Larry Summers, with his refreshingly willful behavior, was the one hope for grand vision, and he has already excused himself from the Curricular Review altogether...
...however much I loathe you, I worry even more about your inheritor. My deepest fear, Core, is that the Gen Ed vanguard of today will produce a report so dodgy, so obsequious to “internationalism,” that it will only recreate you into an even greater monstrosity...
...Core Curriculum, you are a motley and arbitrary collection, and I loathe you because you equate gendered communities in North Africa with the history of Western civilization. I loathe you because when I ask you if indigenous Australians had a Bach (which is a rhetorical question), I can very much imagine you offering up, without a hint of irony, a study of Aboriginal didgeridoos...
...loathe and pity you, Core, because your pedagogues implicitly admit that you are a deeply flawed creature, even if they will not hazard a forthright statement. They know that for every “Justice” there are five “Chinese Imaginary Spaces...
...Core Curriculum, use those modes of inquiry of yours to look at the opus that brought your predecessor into being. Your progenitor, Core, is caricatured as archaic and uncouth, but the issues we grapple with today—internationalism, ethnocentrism, post-modernism—are all addressed in The Red Book with surprising comprehension, even if unfashionable “ism”-less terms are used...