Post-War Education (Correspondence)
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1944-09
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Bennington College
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We have always believed that the humanities constituted a part of the central core of all liberal education and we have never believed that there was an antithesis between liberal and vocational education...Under the Bennington plan many of the activities which have been called extra-curricular - music, drama, etc - are incorporated as a part of our regular educational program...We shall continue, as we have in the past, to attempt to teach our students toward a thorough understanding of the place of our nation in the international community. I don't feel, however, that this can be accomplished merely by setting up additional courses, but it must grow out of the development of the whole curriculum. If that is soundly conceived and soundly executed, understanding of our own culture as well as of other cultures will result.
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New York Times, Fine, Benjamin, Post-War Education, Educational Policy, Thinking about Education, How Bennington Educates, Jones, Lewis Webster, Curriculum, Teaching, Navy, Army, Aeronautics, Mathematics, Culture, Teaching Methods, changing climate of opinion, Humanities, Liberal Education, Servicemen, Music, Drama, Aviation, Visual Education, International Community, American Education, Languages, Bennington Plan, Evolving Curriculum, Changing Curriculum