ABSTRACT

For the vast majority of students, including the moderates and the revolutionaries, society by its very structure forbids popular involvement in change. In educational reform, virtually no differences of opinion exist between students about the areas in which reform is necessary. The student himself, who at least has three years to look around and evaluate his future, is forced in the end to choose between relatively few alternatives, all of which reduce his eventual freedom of movement. Many students who agree that society is unpleasant are utterly at loss when deciding ways and means of rectifying the problem. On British University campuses there is information upon which an almost identical strategy for action can be planned. Many ordinary students who joined in what seemed a popular issue failed even to understand the tactics of which they were so necessary a part, whilst giving lusty support to the few willing martyrs who appeared to have been victimized.