Discusses and evaluates issues raised in E. D. Hirsch's "Cultural Literacy." Argues that investigation is still needed on the nature of curriculum, ideologies implicit in teaching, the ends of education, and motives for learning. (MM)

Although these are substantial reasons to question Wilshire's notion of a complete moral collapse of America's research universities, he does call attention to ethical problems. Wilshire supports restoring the task of teaching to undergraduates in a new professional ethic for the professoriate. (SLD)