The school teaches core disciplines while focusing on the creative potential of the students.
The discipline of Financial Economics brings together two core disciplines.
Pathology is a core discipline of medical school and many pathologists are also teachers.
How, you might ask, does this philosophy affect teaching in the core disciplines?
Economics has traditionally been one of the core disciplines in business and management.
It is a core discipline within space mission design and control.
It's a core discipline of thinking that would be useful for almost everyone to learn, because it has so many applications.
Presumably, in an essentialist classroom, the teacher is the one designing the curriculum for the students based upon the core disciplines.
A strong academic program, centered around the traditional core disciplines, prepared the academically-inclined student for university entrance.
Horowitz cites the lack of a 'core discipline' as exacerbating the problem.