Fewer Than Half Of All

There's A Great Deal Of Difference Between Thinking Reflectively About Moral Issues And Achieving Higher Standards Of Ethical Behavior.

For Some Students, Especially In The Sciences, The Knowledge Gained In College May Be Directly Relevant To Graduate Study. For Almost All Students, A Liberal Arts Education Works In Subtle Ways To Create A Web Of Knowledge That Will Illumine Problems And Enlighten Judgment On Innumerable Occasions In Later Life.

Freshly Minted Ph.ds Typically Teach The Way Their Favorite Professors Taught.

I Won't Say There Aren't Any Harvard Graduates Who Have Never Asserted A Superior Attitude. But They Have Done So To Our Great Embarrassment And In No Way Represent The Harvard I Know.

Efforts To Develop Critical Thinking Falter In Practice Because Too Many Professors Still Lecture To Passive Audiences Instead Of Challenging Students To Apply What They Have Learned To New Questions.