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...students for citizenship in a global society and, to that end, require students to take courses in ten diverse areas from reason and faith to analytical reasoning. I fear, however, that the proposal goes too far in rejecting the Core Curriculum’s “approaches to knowledge?? in favor of teaching knowledge itself. Methodology, particularly the scientific approach to human society, should play a prominent role in general education...
...save the liberal arts, University Hall must remember why Harvard teaches the liberal arts. It is not so that students leave knowing skill-sets or canons of materials, but rather that they leave knowing some and thirsting for more. Knowledge for knowledge??s sake is neither a pedagogical method nor a vocational skill; it is a metaphysical belief asserting that studying the universe enriches the lives of those who try. The power to decide the pathway to this goal must be released from the bureaucratic rule of committee and given to the individual student...
...approach is also in complete contravention of the spirit of the new general education program, which was supposed to be a transition from “approaches to knowledge?? to knowledge itself. Advocating such a category amounts to a resurrection of an economics “way of knowing” and is a blatant attempt at smuggling Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics,” into a college-wide requirement. The centerpiece of “The Market and Society” component would, in reality, be one course. The other courses?...
...shaken up some of Ring Talk’s regular readership. Martel’s articles received what she calls “plenty of sexist comments,” some of which were so extreme Fernandez felt compelled to delete them. Some attack her perceived lack of knowledge??she’s a comparative youngster, after all—or her writing, which is flowery and analogy-rich, in contrast to the “very simple, very pithy” writing she says is common in boxing journalism. Cliff L. Rold, a fellow Ring Talk contributor...
Core: 1. Seven required courses that allegedly teach you “approaches to knowledge?? and no facts, figures or ideas—whatever that means. 2. The reason you won’t have time to take as many courses that are intellectually stimulating, challenging and fun. 3. What probably won’t exist anymore by the time you graduate (see Curricular Review...