The Independent Scholarship Project, based in New York, encourages intellectual pursuits beyond conventional American academic life. ISP director Ronald Gross explains the aims, methods, problems, and prospects of independent scholars in the United States.
Robert Gingher concludes this episode in a commentary, discussing the aims of American education and its relationship to the workaday world.
At the time of these interviews, Gross was director of the Independent Scholarship Project. Gingher was a columnist for the Greensboro (N.C.) Daily News.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
