The Yale Report of 1828: A New Reading and New Implications
2008; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 48; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1748-5959.2008.00125.x
ISSN1748-5959
Autores Tópico(s)Academic Freedom and Politics
ResumoOf the classic documents addressing issues in higher education, few have provoked as much commentary as the Yale Report of 1828—and perhaps fewer still have been subject to such undeserved infamy. Ostensibly, the Report originated as an institutional memorandum. It was produced in response to the suggestion made at the annual meeting of the Yale Corporation in 1827 that the College might consider dropping the study of “the dead languages” from its curriculum. But its authors—President Jeremiah Day, Professors Benjamin Silliman, Sr., and James L. Kingsley—were clearly participating as well in an ongoing public debate. The 1820s were a decade of lively campus discussions on the subject of curricular reform. The stakes were high. The study of Latin and Greek traditionally constituted the core and bulk of college education. Wasn't it time for change?
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