The Small College
The Small College
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THE TEMPTATION TO "ENRICH" THE CURRICULUM This pressure for "short cuts" to professional and business careers tempts the small College to "enrich" its curriculum by multiplying courses, in the vain attempt to compete in this respect with the "Univer- sity" and hold its students, many of whom threaten to leave and often do leave the small College for the "University" for the last two years of their under- graduate course. The small College must recognize its permanent limitations, and keep stead...ily in view its peculiar function of providing general culture rather than complete preparation for any special profession or career.
The College, for example, need not offer to teach every science. A few typical sciences, thoroughly well taught, with a view of producing general culture rather than turning out teachers, are all that is needed to inculcate in the student the scientific habit of mind and to teach him the scientific method of investiga- tion, applicable to any subject. Better, far better, for a College to have a few good professors teaching the staples of a liberal education the Languages (ancient and modern, especially English), Mathemat- ics, the leading Sciences, History, Political Science, ii and Philosophy than to double the faculty by the appointment of a number of raw instructors, simply in order to lengthen the educational menu by the inser- tion of a large number of short courses in this and that study, from which the bewildered student is to elect, d la carte.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
THE TEMPTATION TO "ENRICH" THE CURRICULUM This pressure for "short cuts" to professional and business careers tempts the small College to "enrich" its curriculum by multiplying courses, in the vain attempt to compete in this respect with the "Univer- sity" and hold its students, many of whom threaten to leave and often do leave the small College for the "University" for the last two years of their under- graduate course. The small College must recognize its permanent limitations, and keep stead...ily in view its peculiar function of providing general culture rather than complete preparation for any special profession or career.
The College, for example, need not offer to teach every science. A few typical sciences, thoroughly well taught, with a view of producing general culture rather than turning out teachers, are all that is needed to inculcate in the student the scientific habit of mind and to teach him the scientific method of investiga- tion, applicable to any subject. Better, far better, for a College to have a few good professors teaching the staples of a liberal education the Languages (ancient and modern, especially English), Mathemat- ics, the leading Sciences, History, Political Science, ii and Philosophy than to double the faculty by the appointment of a number of raw instructors, simply in order to lengthen the educational menu by the inser- tion of a large number of short courses in this and that study, from which the bewildered student is to elect, d la carte.
What to read after The Small College?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Richard Davenport Harlan to read onlineMoreLess
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