ABSTRACT
In this chapter I discuss the possible role of the university as the seat of a changed orientation to knowledge and learning, and, as such, as the place to initiate a change in our understanding of education. School systems are inexorably tied into the premises of the university. Knowledge, as we have known it, is created and controlled at the university; children are educated in the hopes that they will someday access the privilege of a university education as a key to continued privilege and personal power. If we are to change our understanding of what is valuable in education in an effort to make education more relevant to all students, we must re/evaluate the process valued by the university and by all institutions of knowledge.
