美国新媒体Quartz近日公布了一组图表,列出了过去15年来10所美国顶尖大学课堂上被教授推荐最多的作品及各自出现的次数。数据显示,柏拉图、霍布斯、马基雅维利和亚里士多德的著作在美国高校学生必读书单中占压倒性地位,在顶尖大学中尤甚。必读书目倾向于人文学科,理工科较少,而且大多是西方经典。科幻小说领域,雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》是在课堂上讲授最多的,杰弗雷乔 Quartz, the new US media, recently released a set of charts that lists the top 10 most-recommended professions and their respective appearances in the top 10 US universities in the past 15 years. The data show that the writings of Plato, Hobbes, Machiavelli and Aristotle dominate the compulsory reading lists of American college students, especially in top universities. Required readings tend to humanities, science and engineering less, but mostly Western classics. In the field of science fiction, Shelley’s “Frankenstein” is the most taught in the classroom, Jeffrecho