ABSTRACT
In the summer of 1934, travel across America distressed Eric L. Trist when he saw violent bitterness in employer-employee relations. Trist liked America and enjoyed being a stranger and becoming a detached and expert observer of foreign culture. He wanted to complete a Yale postgraduate degree with new research on appropriate action for relieving distress among uneducated workers in America. Before leaving America, Trist was expected to write about his academic experiences in Yale. He centered his attention on educational practices in the Yale Institute of Human Relations, and the difference between undergraduate and graduate education at the University. After travel in America, Trist was ambivalent about returning to England, liked America, wanted to marry Virginia, hoped to complete a postgraduate degree at Yale, had changed his research interests, and wanted to do something for uneducated and oppressed workers. In England, education is fantastically distorted by the persistence of feudal monasticism and male exaggerations.
