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...Verba added that he is very excited about the project's ability to fight the growing notion that “all the world’s knowledge?? can be found on websites...
...distressed at the fact that many students get to the point of [high school] graduation without much practical knowledge?? of how to work for change in the government, Graham said...
It’s clear that the Core Curriculum needs to be replaced. On this page and in University Hall, the Core and its “approaches to knowledge?? philosophy have been maligned for not providing enough concrete knowledge. A system where students can fulfill one history requirement by taking a course on 15 years of Cuban history may be great for cocktail parties, but it is hard to see how seven courses in the Core Curriculum could form the foundation of what we believe should be the best program of studies in the world. A higher...
...drug dealer switched cell-phones but could not if a suspected terrorist did the same. Similarly, the controversial “sneak and peek” provision of the Act—which grants warrants allowing officials to search a location without a terror suspect’s knowledge??seems less controversial when one realizes that this procedure was already available for standard policing...
...Core curriculum will cause many a recent Harvard graduate to nod in agreement. Douthat suggests a Columbia-style great books curriculum as an alternative, allowing Harvard undergraduates to gain a traditional, broad-based liberal arts education in lieu of the narrow, overly specific “approaches to knowledge?? introduced in esoteric classes like Literature and Arts C-42, “Constructing the Samurai” and Literature and Arts B-31, “The Portrait.” No argument here—undergrads have wasted too much time learning about the Swing...