Presents the case for preserving and nourishing the teacher preparation option as an integrated part of the undergraduate liberal arts curriculum. Describes the Consortium for Excellence in Teacher Education's new reform efforts, stressing the principles of development and integration. Includes three references. (MLH)

This position paper denounces what the author considers to be an increasing and excessive reliance on computers and technological advancements generally as panaceas for educational and social problems whose real resolution demands the skills of "citizens with a basic liberal arts education" rather than those of technocrats. (JBM)