For an American university years is how to estimate the importance of not too.They are the civilization made him the only way...In the face of such a man who will accept education, we have to think about such a question: if he can be called a university education, he should study?"
As the United States, is also the world first-class universities, the undergraduates at Harvard University, learn what?Harvard traditional "liberal education" is the basic element of what?Their general education and experience on how to change?Harvard are learning?
It is said that in each person's life, will appear such a time, he or she suddenly realized the charm of harvard.I think a lot of people that moment on he got up to thousands of pages of course selection list, for your choice first class at harvard.
Introduced new general education program formally in 2013, to redraw the eight areas of knowledge category, students need to dabble in art and interpretation, culture and religion, empirical reasoning, ethical reasoning, life science, system science, physics, the world, the world of society, in the world in the United States, a total of 400 courses.
If the value of a university education is to provide a time period for a person's life, in the meantime, his curiosity is the most exuberant, the mind is the most open, the pressure that begs a crash and away from the society, learn how to question, to doubt the premise of established, learn to unconstrained style of thinking, so, when almost all human knowledge together before his eyes, and he must choose 32 worth spending four years course, except for the feast of the knowledge is full of excitement, I'm afraid there are huge confusion and upset.
General education: what is a received a good education?
"The first 25 years of the 21st century, what is a 'people received a good education?"This is the faculty of arts and sciences, dean of harvard William Bryant in 2003, a general education reform put forward of the first questions at the meeting.When a passed nearly 400 - year - old university look self, this is one of the most simple, but also the most difficult problems.Starting in 2013, harvard undergraduates fully implementing a new set of general education (Gen Ed) plan, to replace in the late 1970 s, the design of the "Core Curriculum" (Core Curriculum).
For harvard students never read Shakespeare more shameful, still don't know the difference between the chromosome and gene is more shameful?What knowledge is important to have to teach each student?Such as enough knowledge of economics to let them read the Wall Street financial statements, plenty of scientific literacy to let them read each paper in the history of scientific American, or enough of a sense of humor to let them understand the New Yorker joke?
"By education and technical training is not the same thing.Especially in the west "Liberal Education" (Liberal Education) in the visual field, a man of Education, must understand himself and his place in the world, culture and nature, and the pursuit of a meaningful life.It requires a historical perspective, let a person not stuck in the moment of reality, live like a fly "summer".