At 9:59 AM +0100 11/27/06, Daniel Wolf wrote:
I think, however, that you would agree that in the huge expansion of
Higher Education which took place in the the post-war era,
Universities and the Military clearly worked to mutual benefit:
inflating the freshman class both created opportunities for students
who might not otherwise see a University campus (as did the GI Bill
for veterans) and was a growth opportunity for the Universities, and
the addition of both education and maturity to the draft pool was
beneficial to the military.
A few years ago I came across a world history survey (17th c. on, I
think) by a very conservative British historian. The chapter about the
US in the 1960s was called "America's Suicide Attempt," which seemed
very apt because this was, after all, the time when this country spent
a great deal of energy pulling itself apart and attempting to kill its
own children. But no, what this guy had in mind was that we had
undertaken to offer higher education to large numbers of proles who
were unsuited to it, thereby inviting a near-fatal level of social
instability. I can think of no clearer illustration of the difference
between the British and American right wings.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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