Even before then, Hutchins had toyed with the idea of slow exercise before, only to lose interest. But low weight combined with slow movements seemed like the perfect program for these women: Following it, the women made dramatic gains in strength.
If meaning were to follow etymology, the BBC might have been asked to provide carriage-driving lessons. The original Latin meaning of curriculum was a course, but of the kind that one runs around (it came from currere, to run), or perhaps traverses in a racing chariot, a transferred sense.
Curriculum Definitions and Reference Points. If the curriculum is to be the instrument of change in education, its meanings and operational terms must be clearer than they are currently. For all its frivolous Latin roots, curriculum's larger meanings do not spring from the literal meaning, a âracecourse,â but from the practical, chilly, Calvinist climate of Scotland.