Founded in 1966 and premised on the idea that motivated sixteen-year-olds are capable of
college work Bard College at Simon's Rock is an educational «experiment» from the sixties that
has endured and prospered. Educating Outside the Lines looks at Simon's Rock as a pioneer of
the early college movement that has begun to reshape the connections between secondary and
higher education. Because its curriculum is entirely at the college level its students handle
a challenging B.A. program before having completed the last two years of high school and may
earn their degrees before they are twenty. In this collection faculty and alumni explore what
this unique vantage point can teach about college pedagogy. The book invites educators parents
and students to re-imagine what college itself could be.
