The role of the educational system in the formation of particular social attitudes and values is discussed. Three positions taken by educators during the depression are examined: 1) the indoctrination of students to support the status quo; 2) indoctrination of students to support a defined future society; and, 3) training which will enable…

This article suggests that the more systematic the training efforts and the more concentration on the development of functional selection criteria, the greater the probability for creating successful" counselors. (Author/CJ)

Describes a mythical professor-author who writes of the period 1970-1984, in which organized schools are abolished because they prevent learning. Mythical political struggles and alternate means of education are explored. (DM)

This essay attempts to contribute to the solution of problems created by the current criticism of the traditional functions of the American University: teaching (training for professions, citizenship, individual development), research both government and private, and public service or involvement. (SE)

The basis of this discussion are the objectives of the contemporary American university. It is an attempt to demonstrate that higher educational institutions are adaptable to social change, and students desires for socially relevant educational experiences. (SE)

The elements of his descriptive diagnosis of today's social, intellectual, and educational scene are: semantic confusion in social relations, resistance to authority, fear of new discoveries, impatience with experience, utopianism, and the suspicion that learning itself is repressive. (SE)

Academic freedom includes the freedom to be wrong and that right of critical expression is one of the odd but inevitable epiphenomena attached to the necessary processes of instruction and research. Academically based criticism (of our society) shows' itself on every hand." (SE)