In the founding era of Asian American studies, the College Edition of _Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language_ provided four explanations of the term “education”: (1) “the process of training and developing the knowledge, skill, mind, character, etc.”; (2) “knowledge, ability, etc. thus developed”; (3) “formal schooling” or “a kind of stage of this,” for example, higher education; and (4) “systemic study of the problems, methods, and theories of teaching and learning” ([Guralnik and Friend 1968, 461](/asian-american-studies/works_cited/guralnik-david-b/ "Guralnik, David B.")). The first three features were given serious attention in the formation of Asian American studies, but only a few instructors took the fourth feature into account and experimented with teaching and learning methods. Does any of this matter in the ongoing development of Asian American studies? What is the how, when, where, and why of “education” as a keyword in Asian American studies? Education is a foundational theme in the field. Constant reference is made to the origins of Asian American studies in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a protest movement in higher education that was part of a larger social movement to change the power structure and racialized culture of U.S. society, its institutions, and...