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I used the Duck Duck Go "search assist" and asked when the first course in Shakespeare was taught at Harvard:
Regarding Cambridge, Chat GPT-- via the search bar-- replied:
A book I once used in a class: The Battleground of the Curriculum - Liberal Education and American Experience
"This book examines the American experience in liberal education and demonstrates that there has been a 'crisis' surrounding the curriculum of the modern U.S. university for the past two centuries. It points out where and how contemporary critics of the curriculum are wrong, historically speaking, and shows how American ideals of 'liberal education' are extraordinarily obscure, the product of many different attitudes and historical intentions." (my emphasis)
It is seems to me that most major, culture-changing projects are committee projects, involve key "family" members (e.g. Billy Shepherd, (self-reported) the 28th grandson of William Wallace or Charles M. Russell, direct descendant of the first Earl of Bedford) and run for decades if not centuries. Of course, see the work of Mile Mathis.
Regarding Cambridge, Chat GPT-- via the search bar-- replied:
A book I once used in a class: The Battleground of the Curriculum - Liberal Education and American Experience
"This book examines the American experience in liberal education and demonstrates that there has been a 'crisis' surrounding the curriculum of the modern U.S. university for the past two centuries. It points out where and how contemporary critics of the curriculum are wrong, historically speaking, and shows how American ideals of 'liberal education' are extraordinarily obscure, the product of many different attitudes and historical intentions." (my emphasis)
It is seems to me that most major, culture-changing projects are committee projects, involve key "family" members (e.g. Billy Shepherd, (self-reported) the 28th grandson of William Wallace or Charles M. Russell, direct descendant of the first Earl of Bedford) and run for decades if not centuries. Of course, see the work of Mile Mathis.
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