ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about the personal reflection on American higher education which does not fall far from Clark Kerr's thinking. In part, this is because even when he did not see things clearly he intuited them, so his work provides the clues necessary to explore the things that he missed. But the main reason this study is focused on his work is because of the natural affinity with his thinking that drew him in the first place. The apple does not fall far from the tree. Kerr might have liked this agricultural metaphor, for, having been raised on a farm, he loved trees, most particularly apple trees. As E. Alden Dunham wrote, as a teenager, Kerr "could identify 50 varieties of apple trees in the dead of winter!". His love for this fruit was so famous that Pennsylvania State University dedicated its living apple museum —the only one in the country —to him.
