This history of Goddard College (Vermont) and its founder and first president, Royce S. Pitkin, discusses the founding, growth and success of the college. The hypothesis for this experimental college was that the education necessary to a civilized society is a process of dealing with the growth and realization of potential in the context of the learner's entire life. The following chapters are included: (1) A Radical College; (2) Goddard Seminary; (3) A Four-Year Junior College; (4) A Vermont School for Living; (5) Living What You Learn; (6) Democratic Education; (7) Self-Reliant Individuals; (8) To Live a Good Life; (9) The Folk School Idea; (10) Individual and Community; (11) Accreditation; (12) Testing Ideas with Action; (13) A Communist School with Coed Rooming; (14) Real Life Problems; (15) In the Face of Adversity; (16) The Experimental College; (17) A Community for Learning; (18) Promises to Keep; (19) An Experimenting College; (20) The Multi-Campus Experiment; (21) The Adult Degree Program; (22) The Process of Education; and (23) To Know for Real. An epilogue, footnotes, an index, and a comparison of 1938 and 1968 budgets are appended. (KM)