Abstract
It's customary to begin a sermon with a text. I don't pretend that my text has any basis in Holy Writ, but it does come from a book which has had a considerable impact on many people; the book is Future Shock, and my text is found in Chapter 18, which bears the title "Education in the Future Tense". I quote: "As for curriculum, nothing should be included unless it can be strongly justified in terms of the future. If this means scrapping a substantial part of the formal curriculum, so be it. Anyone who thinks the present curriculum makes sense is invited to explain to an intelligent fourteenyear-old why algebra or French or any other subject is essential to him. Adult answers are almost always evasive. The reason is simply: the present curriculum is a mindless holdover from the past." For a completely opposite view, look in this morning's Globe & Mail; Kingman Brewster, the President of Yale University, makes the claim that "relevance" is a fad; it has passed, and is, therefore, no longer relevant.
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