ABSTRACT
At the heart of every revolution is a challenge to the political authority of the rulers. The revolutionaries may focus their criticism on the particular policies and practices of the rulers—there may be a list of "grievances" or "demands". Protests against Reserve Officer Training Corps programs (ROTC), Dow Chemical recruiting, or secret research tend to turn into attacks on the legitimacy of the university administration. A university is then not only a place where potential scholars can find actual scholars; it is also a place where young people can find mature men and women who live by the Socratic dictum that the unexamined life is not worth living. Critics of university education very rarely reflect on how much of the day-to-day business of the academy is determined by this commonplace fact. A variety of social arrangements have been employed for supporting university teachers.
