ABSTRACT
There can be few subjects, if any, that experience as great a degree of internal dissension as education. All disciplines, of course, have their tensions, to do with their scope, theoretical persuasion, methodology, application or other aspects of their practice. Academic life is a disputatious affair, and the historical longevity of the university as an institution may be due partly to the fact that it has found ways of managing conflicts that would leave a church in schism, fragment a political party, or drive a commercial company to the wall.
