The proceedings of the 21st annual meeting of the Far Western Philosophy of Education Society in 1972 are presented. The proceedings consisted of 20 addresses and responses. Titles include (1) Presidential Address: Competency-Based Education: Consensus Cognoscenti Versus Reconstructio Experientiae; (2) A Role for Philosophy in California and Community Goal Setting; (3) Transaction Theory and the "Middle Game" of Instruction; (4) Some Observations on the Existential Philosophy of Education; (5) Some Educational Implications of the Eastern Notion of the Environment/Self; (6) Skepticism in Ethics and Aesthetics and Its Educational Consequences; (7) Responsibility and Experimentalistic Education; (8) The California Child's Legislated Educational Future; (9) Thinking and Think Tanks: Perspective and Proposal; (10) The Presentation of the Self and Philosophy of Education; (11) Existential Frustration and Psychological Anomie within Select College Student Subcultures; (12) Some Theoretical Considerations of Measurement: A Philosophical Analysis; (13) Priest or Teacher; (14) "How Do You Know You Know?"--The Question Nobody Asks; (15) Academicus Resartus; (16) Contemporary Philosophies of Education: A Search for the Cutting Edge; (17) A Conceptual Model for Relational Identification of Philosophical Systems; (18) Memorization--A Much Maligned Process; (19) A Modular Approach to Foundations of Education; (20) Behaviorism: Individual and Species-Wide. (DE)