Getting faculties to come to a consensus about something that they've never really thought about or had to worry about in their careers before can be a rather slow process and a long process, it certainly was the case at Harvard, and it's the case with most of the general education curricula that I know of, it takes four or five years just to get everybody on board with one idea.

The way universities operate is the decision about what students need for the degree are... is the decision made by the faculty.

I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

I don't think the same curriculum fits every student body.

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The difficulty with coming up with a curriculum is mainly that faculty aren't trained to think in terms of general education. They're trained to think in terms of their own discipline, or their specialty.

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