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How Does Liberal Arts Education Cultivate Leaders – The Yale Experience T.P. Ma Raymond J. Wean Chair Professor Yale University 耶魯大學 講座教授 馬佐平 Yale’s Unique Contributions to Liberal Education •The Yale Report of 1828 •The Residential College System The Yale Report of 1828 • One of the Most Influential Documents in American Higher Education • Part-1: A General Discussion of Liberal Education • The Liberal Education composes of 4 disciplines, that would 1. form a man’s proper character 2. enable the educated man to act in an appropriate manner in the absence of supervision 3. provide a man with mental discipline 4. vigorously exercise a mans mental faculties The Yale Report of 1828 The Yale faculty denounced the concept of preparing its undergraduates for specific professional work. Our object is not to teach that which is peculiar to any one of the professions; but to lay the foundation which is common to them all.“ Advocates for the liberal education curriculum believed that exercising the mind and providing a general foundation common to all was more important than providing specialized education for a particular profession. Yale’s Residential College System • 70 years old • Affords cohesiveness and intimacy of a small school • while still enjoying the cultural and scholarly resources of a large university How Does Residential College System Enhance Liberal Education • Learning in Living Environment (Students spend 2/3 of his/her time in a residential college) • Most of the students in a residential college are majors in different fields, which promote broad exchanges and offer opportunity for absorbing wide range of knowledge • The com