ERIC Number: EJ984435
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Sep
Pages: 3
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ISSN: ISSN-0895-4852
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Rebuilding the Temple
Allen, Charlotte
Academic Questions, v25 n3 p325-327 Sep 2012
The author believes that any effort to promote a curriculum focused on traditional values in today's academic culture will be promptly and thoroughly sabotaged by those assigned to teach it--which is why she thinks the best bet for traditionalists is to refocus on the Enlightenment inspired "temple of science" vision of a university, which at least has the virtue of being value-neutral. She argues that universities would serve their students better--and retain their respectability in the eyes of the parents, donors, and taxpayers who subsidize them--if they more or less forgot about the humanities and refashioned themselves into literal "temples of science." She suggests that universities focus their resources on science classes and that their students buy some Great Courses CDs if they would like to learn something coherent and nonpoliticized about the humanities. (Contains 3 footnotes.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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