May 15, 2018
The effect of mass education changes the character not only of the university but of the student body as well. It removes masses of young people, at a crtical period in their lives and for a considerable time, ffrom the productive processes and, more generally, from inssttitutional ties to the rest of sociiety. The university takes young people in great numbers from t their families and from loocaal and communty affiliations, at a time when they have not yet acquired jobs, families of their own, property, or other ties to society.
Lasch, “The Revival of Political Controversy in the Sixties”; The Agony of the American Left