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To: nickedknack
Eliminate all majors with the word “Studies” in the title. Eliminate all majors with the word “Studies” in the title.

That would be a good start. I would even take a hard look at the reforms Norman Foerster was advocating in the 1930's and 1940's.

Arguing that colleges in the 1920's and '30's were in a full-scale revolt against tradition and increasingly adopting utilitarian curricula that made them essentially glorified vocational/technical schools, Foerster advocated that the undergraduate curriculum cover "history, philosophy, science, and language and literature,” with an emphasis on the Great Books that have stood the test of time. He also argued that specialization and the pursuit of majors be put off until graduate school. See his book The Humanities and the Common Man (1946).

19 posted on 01/16/2018 8:41:54 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

where’s he been for 40 years ???


22 posted on 01/16/2018 8:54:57 PM PST by 11th_VA
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To: Fiji Hill
That would be a good start. I would even take a hard look at the reforms Norman Foerster was advocating in the 1930's and 1940's.

I once had a 1930s textbook with HS studies—including Latin, Greek, German, Trig, Calculus, European History—the works!

Just two inches thick, this college graduate doesn't understand most of it.

​≡≡8-O

33 posted on 01/16/2018 11:24:32 PM PST by Does so (McAuliffe's Charlottesville...and...The Walter Duranty Press"...)
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To: Fiji Hill
He also argued that specialization and the pursuit of majors be put off until graduate school.

So the average person be 24 before you began to learn anything useful.

Did he suggest how you were suppose to actually pay for all this "education"?

41 posted on 01/17/2018 3:32:59 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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