We have a dated model of a university system in this country and need to realize not only where the students are as undergraduates but where they are going. Valuing a science experience for all of our diverse students across all institutions is a huge challenge. Providing meaningful and rich experiences for all students is even more imposing because of the challenges represented at multiple levels. Both talk much about what it means to be human and responsible. Others such as Parker Palmer and Donald Kennedy speak eloquently about what it means to teach and to have the responsibility of a faculty member.
Education is more than information transfer.
In our age of easy, fast and universal information delivery, we must aspire to something further. Education must be about learning the ability to think, acquire information, integrate and discriminate. It seeks to true knowledge. It also imagines and realizes the best incorporation of the best applications of information technology wedded with the best in pedagogy developed from cognitive studies of how students learn. He also wrote about knowledge and liberty leaning on each other.