In Canada, as in the U.S., undergraduate programs have become the new high schools. Elementary and high schools simply have to do more to lay essential educational groundwork.
Once respected classical disciplines such as English, philosophy and history have become so specialized, they often serve no other purpose than to perpetuate the niche specializations of individual professors.
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Unfortunately, I don't see any solution to this issue. As stated more and more faculty members are getting their PhDs in very narrow subject areas and will never be in a position to teach a broad undergraduate course.
Furthermore, will these poorly uneducated students ever learn the basics and thus be able to teach it if they continue in academia? Probably not, unless there is truly a committment to change undergraduate education.
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