Abstract:
As college students that will (hopefully) graduate from an elite university, we should be well versed in all academic disciplines, and not only limited to our specific major. As of now, we are failing pretty hard....
"Sadly, this is not the case. And because kids are not showing up to freshman orientation with an understanding of Pascal's Principle, the derivative of my previous statement becomes important - because students do not gain a basic knowledge in high school, we have an obligation to teach it to them here."
The curriculum that affluent areas are able to offer is increasing the divide between the haves and have nots.
"Do you not think it undermines how people perceive your English diploma when they meet your fellow student who can not accurately attribute "The Wasteland" to T.S. Eliot?"
Only if they're also English majors.
The lack of a core curriculum was one of the major reasons I came to Hopkins, and not someplace like UChicago. Ironically, not having to fill a lot of distribution requirements gave me the freedom to be a double major, in fields different enough that each they fulfill the other's distribution requirements.
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"Sadly, this is not the case. And because kids are not showing up to freshman orientation with an understanding of Pascal's Principle, the derivative of my previous statement becomes important - because students do not gain a basic knowledge in high school, we have an obligation to teach it to them here."
The curriculum that affluent areas are able to offer is increasing the divide between the haves and have nots.