Harvard To Focus Less On “Academic” Subjects, Teach Kids How To Be Less American
Oh wonderful…
BOSTON (Reuters) - Harvard University announced on Wednesday its biggest curriculum overhaul in three decades, putting new emphasis on sensitive religious and cultural issues, the sciences and overcoming U.S. “parochialism.”
The curriculum at the oldest U.S. university has been criticized as focusing too narrowly on academic topics instead of real-life issues, or for being antagonistic to organized religion. Revisions have been in the works for three years.
One of the eight new required subject areas—“societies of the world”—aims to help students overcome U.S. “parochialism” by “acquainting them with the values, customs and institutions that differ from their own,” said a 34-page Harvard report on the changes.
So, less “academic” studies like math and science and more studies of world culture. So that we can overcome our stupid, redneck, backward American stupidity, apparently.












