A Journey toward Understanding.
The fantastic expansion of American higher education within the lifetime of a single twentieth-century educator almost defies description. With less than 350,000 students in colleges at the writer's birth, the total has soared to some 11,000,000, and undreamed-of forms and programs have come into being. Higher education as a field of graduate study, with which these reflections are concerned, is entirely a development of this past half-century. Consequently each early teacher or writer charted his course from what he was learning from books, colleagues, swiftly moving events, and personal involvements in studies and policymaking. The following recounts one professor's experiences, set in the context of wider happenings in higher education.