In this article, the author talks about "A Crucible Moment: College Learning & Democracy's Future." There is a moment within "A Crucible Moment: College Learning & Democracy's Future" when the report gets it right. The academics tackle a National Governors Association study that envisions colleges as job training centers. The authors of "A Crucible Moment" recognize that "Narrow training is bad preparation for the economy as well as for democracy". Alas, the narrow training desired by the politicians to produce economic cogs is countered by a desire of the professors for narrow training to produce political cogs. The professors correctly diagnose a problem, but it is one they have helped to create through vacuous course work unconnected to "higher" learning. The uselessness of the education that professors have provided to their students has given rise to education utilitarians, who see universities as trade schools for the professions. The camps may understand one another. Neither understands education. The education promoted in "A Crucible Moment" resembles the activism whose absence in the lives of apathetic students has been long lamented by politicized faculty and administrators. The debate provoked by "A Crucible Moment" pits smart versus stupid rather than Right versus Left. The authors of "A Crucible Moment" are concerned about everyone's social responsibility save their own.