All Oxford knows it has a vice-chancellor, and that the vice-chancellor runs the University,* but few can tell his name. Ask an unsuspecting undergraduate who Sir Richard Livingstone is and the chances are he will murmur something about Stanley in Africa. Last week, as Oxford slumbered in the "long vac" and Sir Richard hied himself to Ireland for a holiday, the Atlantic Monthly gave its U.S. readers (who know him even less than Oxonians do) a chance to meet one of education's most articulate thinkers.
Modern schooling makes him shudder. Curricula, for one thing, are much too cluttered. Argues Sir Richard: "Education...
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