RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Uses of the Past in General Education
JF Harvard Educational Review
JO herp
FD Harvard Educational Press
SP 3
OP 16
DO 10.17763/haer.36.1.q3371618m75t2239
VO 36
IS 1
A1 Jones, Howard Mumford
YR 1966
UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/36/1/3.abstract
AB The author appraises some existing conceptions of general education, particularly the great books approach and historical survey courses. He proposes forms of general education which will help to overcome parochialism through studies which emphasize cultural and historical contrasts rather than continuities.