被视为美国理工科大学顶尖学校的麻省理工学院要求它的本科生“更加系统地学习艺术、人文科学和社会科学”,院长保罗·格雷说:“一个职业工程师是生活并工作在一个社会系统中的,他需要了解文化的价值和人类的价值,不能把人文课程仅仅看作是糕点上的奶油。”上世纪末美国未来学 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is regarded as a top school at the USTC, requires its undergraduates “to study art, humanities and social sciences more systematically,” Dean Paul Gray said: “A professional engineer lives and works in one In the social system, he needs to understand the value of culture and the value of mankind, and not to regard humanities as merely a cream on cakes. ”American Futurology at the End of the Century