Preface
~is book began as an attempt to discuss some aspects of college
and university teaching beyond basic teaching techniques and subject
matter competence. As the chapters developed， however， they expanded
into much broader considerations of how college and university teaching
affects an ever-increasing number of human lives. Knowledge and its
pursuits crucially shape society. Thus， what began as an inquiry into the
development of style and character in college teachers ends in a discus-
sion of the aims of higher education and a comparison of colleges and
universities in 1960 with those of today.
As I was revising the final draft， I came upon an essay by Nevitt
Sanford (see Whiteley， 1982) which makes some of the same observa-
tions to be found in this book. \"In my more despairing moments，\" he
writes， ~it seems to me that the modern university has succeeded in sep-
arating almost everything that belongs together. Not only have fields of
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