Liberal Education and Radical Values

The university as a preserve of the wealthy, the relatively privileged, and a scattering of symbolic scholarship cases is a thing of the past. Mass higher education, so long merely a dream (a nightmare for some), becomes a sounder theoretical possibility and in some schools a literal fact. Now a different kind of student body is here, a student body liberals and radicals have long said they wished to see. Mixed in with those youths we have loosely called the culturally privileged are large nu...