Today,American colleges and universities (originally modeled on German ones) are under strong attack from many quarters. Teachers,it is charged,are not doing a good job of teaching and students are not doing a good job of learning.American businesses and industries suffer from unenterprising,uncerative executives educated not to think for themselves but to mouth outdated truisms the rest of the world has long discarded.College graduates lack both basic skill and general culture .Studies are conducted and reports are issued on the status of higher education.But changes that result either are largely cosmetic or make a bad situation worse.