Education: Too Many Eager Beavers?

The young president of Sarah Lawrence College (for bluestocking young ladies—usually stockingless) is Harold Taylor, 33. His youth has never stopped him from sounding off to his elders. A month ago, he leveled at the Great Books program for concentrating too much on dead letters. Last week, at New York's twelfth annual Educational Conference, he berated the whole U.S. educational system. Said he: "[It] has become one massive quiz program, with the prizes and the honors going to the most . . . repulsively well-informed persons. The man with his hand up first wins the scholarship, is asked to make the...