Shallow Oceans

“The wider the ocean of course offerings, the narrower the education of the individual student. When left to himself, the student, who by definition lacks knowledge and mature discernment, often impoverishes his own learning by selecting studies that already interest or come easily to him rather than those that expand his interest and challenge him. The school that widens its curriculum polishes its own image at the high risk of tarnishing the individual student’s actual program of study.” (Norms and Nobility, p. 132)