大三上学期英美概况第六讲education.ppt

General View 100,000 elementary and secondary schools for 70 million young Americans 12 grades for elementary and secondary schooling: 5 h/d and 5 d/w 2 to 4 years for colleges and universities public (90%) and private schools (10%) $200,000 million of expenses annually What’s the education goal? Yale University Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School (联合学院) in Killingworth, Connecticut Renamed Yale College in 1718 after the donator Elihu Yale Became Yale University in 1887 The third oldest institution of higher education in America 3 major academic components: Yale College (the undergraduate program) the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences ten professional schools A wide array of research organizations, libraries, museums, administrative and support offices The Skull Bones—secret student society composed of up and coming political elites famous “bonesmen”: George W. Bush, John Kerry, William F. Buckley Jr. etc. Yale University MIT MIT—Massachusetts Institute of Technology Established in 1861 in Boston, moved to Cambridge in 1916 Institute of developing advanced administrative talents and scientific and technological talents MIT One of the teaching and research centers of science and technology Composed of 5 schools the School of Architecture and Planning the Engineering School the School of Humanities and Social Humanities the Slogan School of Management the School of Science Academic Achievements 63 current or former members of the MIT community have won the Nobel Prize, including 25 professors, 26 alumni, 14 researchers and one staff physician. 27 of the Nobel Prizes are in physics, 12 in chemistry, 13 in economics, 9 in medicine/physiology, and 2 in peace. MIT Paul Samuelson professor of economics at MIT, sole recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1970 Chartered in 1746, known as the College of New Jersey The fourth institution of higher education in the