Anyone who cares about what schools and colleges teach and how their students learn will be interested in the memoir of Ralph W. Tyler, who is one of the most famous men in American education.
任何关心学校教什么以及学生如何学习的人都会对拉尔夫·泰勒的这本回忆录感兴趣，他是美国教育界最著名的人物之一。

Born in Chicago in 1902, brought up and schooled in Nebraska, the 19-year-old college graduate Ralph Tyler became hooked on teaching while teaching as a science teacher in South Dakota and changed his major from medicine to education.
拉尔夫·泰勒1902年出生于芝加哥，在内布拉斯加州长大并接受教育，19岁大学毕业后在南达科他州担任科学教师期间迷上了教学，并将专业从医学转到了教育。

Graduate work at the University of Chicago found him connected with honorable educators Charles Judd and W. W. Charters, whose ideas of teaching and testing had an effect on his later work. In 1927, he became a teacher of Ohio State University where he further developed a new method of testing.
在芝加哥大学读研究生期间，他认识了受人尊敬的教育家查尔斯·贾德和W. W. 查特斯，他们关于教学和考试的思想对他后来的工作产生了影响。1927年，他成为俄亥俄州立大学的教师，在那里他进一步开发了一种新的考试方法。

Tyler became well-known nationality in 1938, when he carried his work with the Eight-Year Study from Ohio State University to the University of Chicago at the invitation of Robert Hutchins.
1938年，泰勒开始闻名全国，在罗伯特·哈钦斯的邀请下，他带着8年的工作成果从俄亥俄州立大学来到芝加哥大学。

Tyler was the first director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, a position he held for fourteen years. There, he firmly believed that researchers should be free to seek an independent spirit in their work.
泰勒是斯坦福大学行为科学高级研究中心的第一任主任，担任该职位14年，他坚信研究人员应该可以自由地在工作中寻求独立精神。

Although Tyler officially retired in 1967, he never actually retired. He served on a long list of educational organizations in the United States and abroad. Even in his 80s he traveled across the country to advise teachers and management people on how to set objectives that develop the best teaching and learning within their schools.
尽管泰勒于1967年正式退休，但实际上他从未真正退休，他服务于国内外的许多教育组织。即使在80多岁时，他也走遍全国，就如何设定目标，开展最佳教学向教师和管理人员提供建议。