'New Frontiers of the Mind Are Before Us'

摘要

There are many cultural reasons for opposing the core. For instance, faculties generally dislike being told what to do. (Doesn't everyone?) The most intelligent argument against a core? That the freedom to choose one's academic path will stoke one's curiosity and fuel experimentation. At places like Vander-bilt University (where I am a visiting faculty member) the curriculum alters the Columbia approach in two ways. First, students choose specific courses that the university believes provide what chancellor Nicholas Zeppos calls "both founda-tional knowledge and critical thinking.