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Human Resources and Higher Educationreviewed by John R. Everett - 1970 Title: Human Resources and Higher Education Author(s): Staff Report of the Commission on Higher Education Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation, New York ISBN: , Pages: 475, Year: 1970 Search for book at Amazon.com The New Left of these days has a standing dogma that says that
American colleges and universities are clearly designed
institutions which exist to supply properly trained manpower for a
corrupt society controlled by the military-industrial complex. This
is the reason, repeated with monotonous rhetoric, that higher
education must be "restructured," that buildings and professors'
papers must be burned, and that classes must be disrupted. The
universities are the soft underbelly training institutes devoted to
brainwashing and training students for their place in an evil
established order.
If the denizens of the Far Left could be induced to read this
long book, they would discover something very strange. First, if
their dogma is true, the operators of the system are so inefficient
and so stupid that there is very little to fear from their bumbling
activities. But more probably they would discover that their dogma
is so wildly untrue that it becomes one of the greatest put-on
jokes of the century. In almost 500 large pages... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- John Everett
New School for Social Research
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