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耶鲁报告 ：耶鲁 报告 1828耶鲁报告英文版 1828耶鲁报告翻译 1818耶鲁报告内容 篇一：《耶鲁报告》 The Yale Report of 1828 · Part I Liberal Education and Collegiate Life Robert J. O’Hara ([email#160;protected]/* */) ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL DOCUMENTS in the history of American higher education was 揟he Yale Report of 1828.?The report consisted of two parts: a general discussion of the nature of liberal education, and an argument for the retention of Greek and Latin literature in the college curriculum. This transcript of the first part of the Yale Report has been prepared for the Collegiate Way website because one of the report抯 themes is the importance of collegiate life itself to student development. The second part of the report, on Classical languages, is more narrowly focused but has also been transcribed for the sake of completeness. Editorial insertions in both transcripts are enclosed in {braces}. The historical context in which the Yale Report was written was complex. It included the rise of Jacksonian democracy in the United States, the growing economic power of the young American republic, the increasing prestige of the universities of Germany, and the founding of the University of London. The report functioned as both a public target for critics of American colleges, and as a sword and shield for college defenders. Frederick Rudolph抯 classic work The American College and University: A History examines the influence of the Yale Report in detail and is an excellent source of additional information. What may be lost in detached analysis, however, is the extent to which the report reveals that collegiate life today梩he corporate life of small academic societies梚s not all that different in many respects from what it was 175 years ago. Have times changed? Of course they have梖or one thing, modern students rarely enter a university at age sixteen. But anyone who has taught college students today and who has listened to laments about how terribly hard it is for them to study