Thirteen dialogues are assembled, originally commissioned and broadcast by Radio Free Europe. Each person interviewed by G.R. Urban is an educational leader in North America or Europe: Donald G. MacRae, Mick Farren, Paul Seabury, Eldon L. Johnson, Richard Lowenthal, Alain Touraine, Lord James of Rusholme, Max Beloff, Jeanne Hersch, Alexander King, Golo Mann, Richard Hoggart, and Lord Ashby. Each presents reasons for and solutions to the current crisis of the university. Disagreement on what the crisis is results from variant definitions of higher education and perceptions of higher education's role in society. The interviewer tries to elicit responses to the query: Is learning enough; and if it is not, how does the hazardous activity of amassing information pass into the relatively hazard-free state of being educated? The introduction is by Seymour Martin Lipset. (Editor/MSE)