Did Arnold ever take the next step to illustrate ‘the best’, or does it remain buried in inaccessible Latin and Greek texts? The remaining fourteen Principles have been shrewdly constructed. Eliot’s potential deal-breakers (cultural homogeneity, Christian worship, a hierarchical society, high culture) have been dropped, and instead we are left with a set of conservative guidelines that would not have been out of place in post-war UK grammar schools (perhaps Tate is remembering his own alma mater): the main languages of human understanding, reason and objectivity, intellectual virtues, an academic curriculum taught mainly through the disciplines, physical activity, differentiated experiences for children of different abilities, national rather than international citizenship, and regular assessment. Tate is proposing evolution rather than revolution, and this should encourage a wider audience to participate in debate than would have been possible had his four guest thinkers’ uncompromising opinions prevailed. Here we have an illustration of an important feature of a reversible change: it produces the maximum amount of useful work. Nicholas Tate’s struggle against the current has produced a coherent alternative to la pensée unique, and while there will be many who will be reluctant to follow his conclusions – after all, we are considering deeply-held beliefs about human nature – very few will fail to be impressed by the scholarship that lies behind them.

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书评：Diversity's Promise for Higher Education：Make it WorkDiversity's Promise for Higher Education：Making it Work（第 2 版），作者：SmithDaryl GBaltimore：约翰霍普金斯大学出版社，2015 年

阿诺德有没有采取下一步来说明“最好的”，或者它是否仍然被埋没在难以理解的拉丁语和希腊语文本中？其余的十四条原则是精明地构建的。艾略特潜在的破坏交易者（文化同质化、基督教崇拜、等级社会、高雅文化）已经被抛弃，取而代之的是一套保守的指导方针，这些指导方针在战后英国文法学校中不会不合时宜（也许泰特正在记住他自己的母校）：人类理解的主要语言、理性和客观性、智力美德、主要通过学科教授的学术课程、体育活动、不同能力儿童的差异化体验、国家公民而非国际公民、和定期评估。泰特美术馆提倡的是进化而不是革命，如果他的四位客座思想家的不妥协意见占上风，这应该会鼓励更广泛的观众参与辩论。在这里，我们对可逆变化的一个重要特征进行了说明：它产生了最大量的有用工作。尼古拉斯·泰特 (Nicholas Tate) 与潮流的抗争产生了一种连贯的替代方案，以取代独一无二的《独特的人生》，尽管会有许多人不愿意遵循他的结论——毕竟，我们正在考虑关于人性的根深蒂固的信念——但很少有人会失败对他们背后的奖学金印象深刻。它产生最大量的有用工作。尼古拉斯·泰特 (Nicholas Tate) 与潮流的抗争产生了一种连贯的替代方案，以取代独一无二的《独特的人生》，尽管会有许多人不愿意遵循他的结论——毕竟，我们正在考虑关于人性的根深蒂固的信念——但很少有人会失败对他们背后的奖学金印象深刻。它产生最大量的有用工作。尼古拉斯·泰特 (Nicholas Tate) 与潮流的抗争产生了一种连贯的替代方案，以取代独一无二的《独特的人生》，尽管会有许多人不愿意遵循他的结论——毕竟，我们正在考虑关于人性的根深蒂固的信念——但很少有人会失败对他们背后的奖学金印象深刻。