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universities concentrate too much on looking formoney and not enough on ensuring that their students recelve a solid educationsteeped in Western civilization's history and moral values,according to Edu-cation Secretary Wi1liam Bennett.  \nIn a speech prepared for delivery today at ceremonies marking Harvard Univer-sity's 350th anniversary in Cambridge,Mass.,Bennett said has never seen a\"greater interest in money--money,cash,bucks--among anybody,\"than amonghigher education lobbyists.\"The higher education advocates put HarvardSquare hawkers to shame,\"he said.  \n\"But very few words can be heard from any of these representatives about otheraspects of higher education--1ssues like purpose,quality,curriculum,themoral authority and responsibilities of uni versities.Most of the time,all wehear from them are pleas for money,for more money.\"  \nThe secretary also was critical of higher education's refusal to “acknowledgethe obvious fact,that in general,it is rich.Whether this refusal is due tocalculation or self-deception,I do not know,\"he said.But\"from higher edu-cation's publicity you would think that hosts of institutions are on the brinkof collapse,others near the abyss;but this is not so.\"  \nBullish On ReaganBennett said the number of colleges and universitiescontinues to grow,as does the gross national spending on higher education andthe size of endowments.\"In fact,the Reagan-era stock market may be the bestthing to have happened in a long while to American higher education,\"he said.  \nBut Bennett said many colleges and universities are not doing an adequate jobof educating students with their funds.On many campuses,student learning isbeing left to \"chance\"under the“justification of deferring to individualdecisions and choi ces,\"Bennett said,adding that institutions should be heldaccountable for thelr actions by students and parents.  \n\"Sometimes a proctor,a professor,a dean,steps in and takes a real interestin a student's education,\"he said.\"But that's often the luck of the draw.Our students deserve better.They deserve a uni versity's real and sustainedattention to thefr intellectual and their moral well-being.\"  \nBennett said higher education advocates often speak in\"exceedingly pious,self-congratulatory”tones,mixed with an\"aura of moral superiority,\"aboutthe job colleges and uni versities are dolng,but in many cases they are moreconcerned about maintaining the status quo than in teaching thelr students.(more)  \n6  \n     October 10,1986  \n# BENNETT:HIGHER EDUCATION MORE CONCERNED ABOUT FUNDS(Cont.)\n\n\"There is an extraordinary gap between the rhetoric and the reality of Ameri canhigher education,\"Bennett said.\"The gap is so wide,in fact,that we facethe real possibility--not today,perhaps not tomorrow,but someday--of an ero-sion of public support for the enterprise.\"  \n\"The uni versity claims to educate,to improve the minds--even the hearts--ofyoung men and women,\"he continued.\"Sometimes it does this,to be sure,butnot as often,and not as wholeheartedly and as purposefully and as successfullyas it should.\"  \nBennett said his conclusions about higher education are the result of his ex-perlences at Harvard Law School,where he was a freshman proctor,and in numer-ous other positions he has held in higher education.He recel ved a law degreefrom Harvard in 1971.  \nBennett was particularly critical of Harvard's core curriculum,saying it isproducing \"too many intellectual and educational casualties among the studentbody\"because it does not contain a \"set of fundamental courses\"that are \"or-dered,purposive,and coherent.\"  \nThere would be problems with any curriculum,but there are more than isnecessary at Harvard,Bennett said.\"That's because luck,serendipity,chance,peer pressure,and a kind of institutional negligence--often a very high-mindednegligence--are not the best guarantors of a general education.Some 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