Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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majors. Both of these are significant departures from previous policy and indicate the influence the Study enjoys. What the principal task of the members of the Study will be is to determine the course the redirection of educational goals and purposes is to take. This depends very much on the characteristics and motivations of the students. The most difficult problem facing the Study is how to design a program in which the negativity of the students is counterbalanced by their natural idealism. It is very important that this negativity not be allowed to dominate, as in the case of the Berkeley riots. To avoid this, the student must be aided as much as possible in his personal search for a stable system of values. Without such values, he will react to the unpleasant or undesirable aspects of his environment in a negative way. Thus, it is important that the University aid and allow the student to develop his personality, his identity, and not try to force one upon him. In the context of educational structure, the best way to accomplish this end is to allow the student as much freedom as possible in the