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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not talking about elite institutions like Yale or Columbia where the breadth requirements are part of a curated humanistic curriculum.

But it seems at say, UMCP or Penn State, a lot of time is spent on these requirements, more than a third of the degree in the arts and sciences.  I can see the merit, but in practice it seems to lean to a lot of undisciplined and unfocused learning.  In a lot of ways it's like high school again - take your English, take your math, take your foreign language, take your gym etc.  In fact the gen-ed requirements are often more extensive than the major to which students are only devoting about 30% of the degree to.

Maybe this is why in a lot of countries the bachelor's degree is 3 years because gen-ed is mainly an American thing.[/quote]

Many kids can't write so classes with writing are good education.[/quote]

In other words, remedial education.  Why isn't this learned in high school?[/quote]

Lucy Calkins and her "Writers Workshop" crap. Her "Readers Workshop" is why John and Jane do not read well.

The whole "workshop" approach to teaching -- common in elementary schools across the country until recently - is pedagogically unsound. Most students are unable to learn effectively with that approach. [/quote]

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