在第二次機器時代中通識教育之價值：美國觀點

Reasserting the Values of Liberal Education in the Second Machine Age: A View from America

We gather here in conference to consider the current significance of the classics and college education in a time of transformative and globalized technological change—what has been called the Second Machine Age.1 The perspective I bring to this task, as an historian of the United States, may seem limited, even parochial, albeit coming from one who first came from outside that country to study and teach its history. Yet 'a view from America,' I believe, provides insight into both the problems we face and the ways we might go forward.