This could be one of the truths that provide John Hyde with a title for his philosophy book; Statue students in traditional American universities- A different ontology? AbstractThis provocative study reframes academic settings as through an epistemological lens, exploring the consequences of various beliefs about knowledge on student life and intellectual development. Hyde argues once again that such a debate which assumes education is simply a technique can arise only when it fills rebus natura enough of the picture and he offers another ontology to rival those underpinning both individual acts of meaningful comprehension by pupils, the principles behind learning as process or activity itself.