bsmall21961! Lucky we survived this long through worse and worse degradation of institutions...
> ... the relation of education to later life should be a dialectical and critical one. If, however, one result of going to college is to become alienated from work per se and defeatist about the possibility of altering one’s relation to it, then it seems to me one ought to re-examine academic institutions themselves and see whether anything in them, or in one’s own attitudes, or in both might be changed.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1961/04/where-is-the-college-generation-headed/658181/
#DavidRiesman #UniversityVisions
Where Is the College Generation Headed?
<em>After teaching and practicing law,</em> DAVID RIESMAN <em>became in 1946 a member of the staff of the College of Social Science at the University of Chicago, and thereafter a member of the Committee on Human Development and of the Department of Sociology. In 1958 he was appointed the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, his alma mater. With a grant from the Carnegie Corporation, Dr. Riesman investigated the problems of higher education discussed in this article; his observations originally appeared in the</em> CHICAGO REVIEW <em>for January, 1958, and have since been amplified and brought up to date for the</em> ATLANTIC.