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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

A weak proposal, dispensed with

The task force charged with overhauling Harvard’s Core curriculum has dropped the "reason and faith" requirement from its proposed list of general education courses.

While the proposed requirement—unveiled with the task force’s report in October—generated nationwide headlines and heated on-campus debate, it died quietly today at a meeting of the full Faculty of Arts and Sciences. - Harvard Crimson, December 12, 2006
This was always a suspect proposal. Steven Pinker offered an excellent critique of the proposed "reason and faith" requirement that is well worth reading. I would only add that the impulse behind the proposal smacked of post-9/11 and post-2000-election intellectual vogues: Why do they want to kill us? Why do they want those goofballs to govern us? Why do they think someone designed us (and why aren't they suing said someone for negligence)?

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