The business model of the university, emphasizing productivity and efficiency, is insidious because it treats knowledge as a product rather than a process. Learning to ask questions is more important than receiving answers, and the special contribution of the university is the excellence of its process. (Author/MSE)

If we continue to educate too narrowly, too technically, too reductively, or continue to ignore a student's character, the skills and values of adaptability, and the contextuality of survival problems, then our college deserve not to survive as liberally educating institutions. (Author)

The case method of teaching in the liberal arts is recommended as a means of reconciling the college curriculum with modern vocational needs for education and problem-solving skills. The method is student-centered, encourages group interaction and cooperation, and relates learning to experience. (MSE)