Such thinking culminated in the famous Yale Report of 1828, which argued that the human personality was made up of various faculties of which reason and conscience were the highest, and that these must be kept in balance. So the goal of education was ‘to maintain such a proportion between the different branches of literature and science, as to form in the student a proper balance of character’.86 The report then went on to argue that the classics should form the core of this balanced character-building.
