ABSTRACT
In this chapter, educational reform is viewed through the lens of the underground press of the Sixties. Allan Bloom viewed the educational reform efforts that characterized this decade as nearly a total disaster. A closer examination of these reforms, however, reveals that the underground press encouraged educational transformation from the static processing of “facts,” the indoctrination into accepted social traditions, or job training to a focus on critical thinking and cultural critique. Efforts similar to Maurice Stein and Larry Miller’s Blueprint for a Counter-Education positioned education and the university as a location for the practice of dissent and, therefore, informed cultural change.
