"...it could be seen that the very distinction between educated and uneducated in America had been leveled. Freedom had been restricted in the most effective way—by the impoverishment of alternatives."

"...the universities gave way under the pressure of mass movements, and did so in large measure because they thought those movements possessed a moral truth superior to any the university could provide.

"Commitment was understood to be profounder than science, passion than reason, history than nature, the young than the old.

"The unthinking hatred of "bourgeois society" was exactly the same in both places.

"A distinguished professor of political science proved this when he read to his radical students some speeches about what was to be done. They were enthusiastic until he informed them that the speeches were by Mussolini."

Allan Bloom - The Closing of the American Mind

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