Student at Harvard markets our philosophy

ilovebagels
Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:12:17 +0000

While Columbia should be applauded for keeping the idea of a real, Western-oriented (but by no means exclusive) curriculum alive, it was hardly their idea. They merely had the fortune of luminaries like Jacques Barzun to stick around and insist even through the turbulent and destructive 1960s that the Core be maintained.

I wish my own university mandated a similar Core, but the next best thing was at least offering the courses so I could take them myself.