Intellectual proletariat

Abstract

One of the sad problems of our time is the supply of redundant or unwanted intellectuals that are turned out in their hundreds every year by almost all the universities of the world. The democratization of Higher Education, like some other excellent ideas, is breaking down very tragically under the strain of everyday experience - the hard realities of the economic situation. Far too many Red-Brick Universities have sprung up and spread like mushrooms. As a resuIt of this, there are now many more graduates in all sorts of subjects than ever before, but one wonders if this greater output of graduates has not been obtained at the expense of quality and also at the expense of social stability.