The change on many U.S. campuses this year runs far deeper than the visible clichés of long hair, rock, sex, pot and protest. The old hierarchy of formal education is under attack. Spurred by the "free university" movement (TIME, June 6), more and more campuses seek a new equality between teachers and students. The new vision is a kind of academic Eden where students create their own courses, without grades or formal classes, and the key scene is the group-encounter session that joins teachers and students in working out their hang-ups together.
Appalling? Perhaps. Yet as far back as the...
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