As with K-12 learning, is the goal of college to teach students to be “engaged” or to focus on critical thinking via rigorous academics? Is it about citizenship and civic life or about knowledge and analytic rigor? What is the goal of higher education? How does this match up with what goes on in colleges & universities? Are these ideas of engagement and acadmic rigor mutually exclusive? Listen to distinguished scholar Stanley Fish on Talk of the Nation: NPR: Fish: Food For Thought.