The "aims and objectives" of some "core curricula"

"adults seem often to want to suppress such childish thoughts, seeing that they energetically set about systematically destroying a child's capacity for them by means, principally, of compulsory education in properly ordered questions which you can answer in accordance with teachable methodological routines:  this is nowadays called the 'core curriculum', or otherwise what you are asked to do when you spell out your 'aims and objectives'."

     Denys Turner, "How to be an atheist," New Blackfriars 82, nos. 977/978 (July 2002):  331 =How to be an atheist:  inaugural lecture delivered at the University of Cambridge, 12 October 2001 (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2002), 34.