Discusses advantages to learning of stating objectives behaviorally, feeling that it is more important to know ways of discovering information rather than merely the information itself. (Author/CJ)

Examination of some of the more common fallacies and misconceptions that are dominant in educational systems today. (author)

Many of our models of the university espouse a monolithic concept of autonomy. The Kantian model, based on specific realms of state intervention and nonintervention, should be explored more thoroughly because it allows for intervention while maintaining some notion of autonomy. (Author/MSE)

Proposes a decision-making model for organizing and structuring academic and occupational programs and choosing the most efficient management style. Recommends a comprehensive community needs assessment, completion of the Environmental Assessment Scale (EAS), determination of educational philosophy, and selection of appropriate college structure.…

A cause-and-effect relationship exists between the event called teaching and the event called learning. Teachers should create antecedent conditions for learning by motivating students and by using strategies such as explaining, comparing, and reinforcing. (PP)

The story of open education illustrates the fact that theoretical models are ideal descriptions of educational practices and beliefs, rather than bodies of prescriptive rules and principles. Open education is viewed as part of a philosophical tradition in education, much of it predating the movement of the 1960s. (PP)

The modern research university has wiped out general and liberal learning in American colleges and universities. The need to restore a sense of purpose to colleges which offer general education is discussed, along with the importance of placing a proper value on teaching. (PP)

Awarding of public aid to college students should be concentrated on curricular areas of demonstrated instrumental relevance and scarcity. (MSE)

In response to Francis Dunlop's paper, the author rejects a priorist verdict on the nature/culture controversy and argues its importance in prescription, explores the logic of the nature/culture interaction in humans, relates differential biology to differing male and female interests, and explores options for modifying sex-stereotyping through…

Awarding of public aid to college students should be concentrated on curricular areas of demonstrated instrumental relevance and scarcity. (MSE)

Suggests that Genesis is not a scientific treatment of the earth's origin/age, but is a primitive religious history of Israel and a polemic against much of the theology of the Babylonian creation myth. Indicates that Genesis narrative and conclusions of science belong to different spheres of knowledge. Educational implications are addressed. (JM)

In open letters to the faculty affairs committee, an art education department chairman attacks the aesthetic approaches being used by a lecturer in art education to teach elementary education majors, and the lecturer defends his deemphasis of crafts and projects with R. G. Collingwood's philosophy in "Principles of Art." (SR)