A call for curricular reform Once these general goals are articulated, it becomes easy to see the inadequacy of the current college curriculum. Holy Cross can be proud of the level of sophistication of work pursued in its various disciplines. But like any other school in America, it needs constantly to reorganize its curriculum in accordance to clearly articulated principles of integration. What is interesting in this statement is that there is nothing dogmatic about it. We do not need to tell students what it all means, if we can only awaken in them the courage to raise the question of meaning for themselves.
True integration is a spiritual process that arises from the heart of each individual.
The most effective way to kill this process is to bury it beneath a mountain of dead facts. It becomes increasingly difficult as the voice of expertise and technical command displaces the voice of simple astonishment. Information technology becomes a barrier rather than an asset. So too television, with its power to convey the sense that one has seen it all.