Away with the Crutches

A college education is supposed to teach a student to think, but does the U.S. college succeed in teaching him to think for himself? Not nearly enough, says Dartmouth's Dean of Faculty Arthur E. Jensen. "Normally, the student goes through college with two crutches: the professor and the textbook. When he graduates, he sometimes stops his education because he no longer has those crutches." Last week, after two years of study, the Dartmouth faculty approved a series of reforms that it hopes will change all that. Chief proposals:

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