Ever since its inception in Ancient Greece, liberal education has afforded its students a truth for new understanding, that makes them well-rounded citizens. In terms of the American education system when it reached its pinnacle in the 1950s, its course was just as quickly reversed in the 1960s. A major culprit in the degradation of higher learning can be shouldered by Students for Democratic Society(SDS).To understand how these events came to be, we must first look at the values/objective of this very organization that came to be at the turn of the decade in 1960 at University of Michigan and Cornell University. Liberal education gives a liberating and freedom that is meant to be worth to educate the person in order to take part in civic life, as a future citizen. The ASEAN the Association of American Colleges and Universities states that a liberal education is that which liberates the mind from ignorance and cultivate social responsibility. Liberal education, unlike vocation is not to train, but to change people. Liberal education allows the student to learn how to think rather than what to think, to have a philosophical understanding wanting to question the reason of being and teaching. A liberal educated person is one that can think outside the box and question the norms of nature. They are free-thinkers.Failure in the closing of the American mind is the failure to have a basic principle of ideas and classic works that contributes to literature, politics etc to educate men, women and society as a whole which become familiar and encourages to seek a greater knowledge of information with the conviction that is set by our university. We no longer seek the knowledge, which aids in our continuous downfall to our liberal education.

Before we get into the roaring 60s, we must first look past and analyze what impact the fifties has on American Liberal Education which made a path to the creation of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Author Alan Bloom analysis of the fifties will set the opening for this thesis paper in connection to Todd Gitlin, who had a personal connection to the organization serving as president. “But one thing we know is that the presumably placid, complacent Fifties were succeeded by the unsettling Sixties.” Bloom, introduced the 50s as mere mindless conformity to the standard of the society, that the 60s changed but why?
Mccarthyism, the glue that held the university during the fifties, the understanding that the university had a common enemy united the students and professor to create a sense of brotherhood that sincerely lacked in the roaring sixties. Those who were attracted to McCarthyism were nonacademic and anti academic as bloom would put it. Academic freedom was acknowledge, professor were allowed to teach their curriculum as they please, relating to scholars such as Locke and Milton without the fear of job security. Old liberalism bloomed one last time the fifties the belief of progress and free market, but that direction changed because in the sixties that was seen as an elite mentality. Gillian gives a more historical approach of the fifties, so we can better understand the roaring sixties. Coming out from the World War II, the boom of “togetherness” swept American homes. The enlightenment of the American was under way as new found economic freedom allowed for new roads, cars, housing, and traveling leisures that opened a new world of opportunity to acquire the knowledge ( introduction of television) of what the world had to offer.The growth of Senator Joseph McCarthy, raged the fear of intellectuals, politicians, and society as a whole. The 1960s were a defining period in America’s history and the being of the dismantling of the american education system as that of the German university in the thirties. The election of Hitler caused the collapse of the German University. The 60s gave themselves over the youth movement, historical progress instead of nature, believed in passion instead of the study of science. The university was overturned. The corruption within the university itself, history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as a comedy. Tragedy was in the German university, had the professor tried to withstand the students they would have been killed, the society was fascist. American university the student people became radicalize, not the society. “In the ordinary world, outside the universities, such youngsters would have had no way of gaining attention. They took as their models Mao, Castro and Che Guevara, promoters of equality, if you please, but surely not themselves equal to anyone. They themselves wanted to be the leaders of a revolution of compassion.” During the fifties the United States universities were at their peak because many top scholars were migrating from Europe, more specifically Germany. There was an incredible migration of genius when you look back at cultural, artistic and economic contributions of Germany in the arts, manufacturing and literatures from Hoffman, Goethe, and Mann. All the greatest minds in the world were in the United states and they bought with them the highest peak of german learning stem from Kant Girth and that was all foreign to US. We were not literate people and not theoretical people in terms of science. Social science won't raise the great question of life, they are professionalism and consciously suppress any debate and keep the peace. You couldn’t go to Europe anymore, they collapsed with hitler, morality, and they stay away from morality and literature because it is value based and they have surpassed it and it has now become a technical education. Conformity which was assisted by the rise of McCarthyism which formed a brotherhood to resist the ideology. Liberal education during the fifties was at the peak, given the influence from the German universities. German Universities which had the highest professors migration due to the student revolution that overtook their education system, it aided the United States to give us the independence of learning from scholars such as Hegel, Husserl, and Heidegger. The German Universities were amazing and really produced high level scholars in fields of math, science history and so forth that enhanced the liberal education in the states education. Americans no longer had to go abroad to get the cultural awareness they came to us. This was heavily due to the destruction of the German university it allowed the American university to seek a higher vocation that Bloom believed made American education the top, because student were allowed to have their intellectual needs meant. During the 1930s are the rise of the National Socialist German Worker’s party or better known as Nazis was gaining power in Germany, the German student youth revolution was born. Students were opened to the revolution because it was a freedom movement much like the SDS,it allowed them to break free from the control of the treaty of Versailles and it was time to make Germany strong again. This ideology was aided but the change in the education, as educators were now forced to change curriculum to that which fit the Nazi idea, which allowed students to exercise authority that was backed up by threats. Professors no longer had control of the university and those that went against the ideology were sacked, they were rendered hopeless to seek out new life elsewhere. Heidegger was in charge of dismantling the German university and hanging them to hitler. Heidegger, believed that what man needs is commitment and one with complete devotion. The collapse of the German education was the tragedy that led the path for the collapse of the American university, the need to adjust the government and the education to their wishes. Ultimately the students wanted more rights in running the universities. Cornell was at the cutting edge of the whole activist. Why did the professor cave? they were weak men and the ideology, they were not prepared to defend the university. They can also be attacked by fascist like Germany and they were mainly socialist and did not believe that they can be attacked by their students. They themselves bought into value of commitment, they have been teaching that science only talks a about fact and value relative, if they cannot establish values, why should the mob be able to establish values, and they began to be intimidated by the mob, that niches criticism has hit home, they did not do anything or believed in anything, so why shouldn’t they be instructed by the mob. They were also afraid, but impressed by the mob because they had courage which led to admiration.Even the president of Cornell admired the mob, because they believed in a cause. By allowing the mob to take over the University it destroyed the whole excellence of the whole country. The Vietnam War, the Pill, the sexual revolution, the backlash against America’s institutions and a general spirit of youthful rebellion seemed to turn the world upside down.The birth of the Students Democratic Society (SDS) was noted for being on of the most influential student organization in the 1960s. How did it come to become one of the radical student organization? SDS was created on the bases for the concern for equality in economic, justice and peace and promoting democracy. Beside the sex craves and drugs, America was coming out of post World War and as the economic book, so did the standard of living for most American excluding an entire groups, particularly Blacks, were left out almost entirely. As racial tensions were rising so were the political tensions as the struggle with the Soviet Union for military dominance in the Cold War. The United States wanted to stand as beacon of hope for the world, but domestic conflict seem to say otherwise. Issues such as the Jim Crow segregation and racism and the growing involvement of Americans in the Vietnam. The sex revolution was against the puritans and a liberation for the law and sexual desires that was understood by everyone, you have the right to pursue happiness. Gillian was more drawn into the energy of the organization the students. Bloom says that the students just wanted freedom and pretended to have a higher purpose. Lack in moral behavior which allowed them to skip classes and no responsibility to the university; it was now the norm to have drugs on campus, students were skipping class without failing because of grade inflation.Students no longer were required to perform at their best, and that's true today. Students know that if they don’t attain an A they will more likely get the next best grade of A- or B, professors no longer took their time to explain to their students what they lacked in their assignments and how it can be improved. Students being to have a sense of entitlement to get the grade they think they deserve. According to Gitlin, many did not just turn to drugs to seek the high for the moment, but it reminded them why they gravitated to drugs in the first place as authorities in the fifties refereed to them as juvenile delinquency, and dangerous. “ drugs became commonplace, less care was taken with their settings. Especially given a bad mind-set an uncongenial setting, drugs were capable of driving anxiety to a high pitch”. Like in today's society taking drugs became the subculture whose values and norms are different from mainstream society, which is often opposite to mainstream culture mores. Ultimately, the revolutionary wanted to have fun, using the slogan MAKE LOVE NOT WAR, instead of sex being obscene war was obscene because they wanted to have a fun revolution for sex and drugs which didn’t require a sacrifice and called it a comedy. The decade of the pill was introduced, and the sex revolution took its toll. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1960s the popularity of the pill was used an estimate 1,187,000 women, helping further the free sex of college students in the university. Love was no longer about romance, but to explore to the new reality of love and free sexual expression, even the book( years of hope, days of rage) mentions that even SDS leaders would fall into extramarital affairs “ all that was needed were the heroes willing to act out fantasies the public was now ready to accept as reality “. The hero being the rebel who does what the public wants to see, bloom referee to it as epater les bourgeois which means to shock the bourgeois and the students definitely knew what to do and it was a reality because the access to television, and their world became there playing ground.

“ As the war became more militant so did the antiwar movement in demands, in spirit, in tactics.”(pg. 261, Gitlin) As American forces were arriving on the coast of South Vietnam to defend democracy, the revolutionaries of the SDS believed that it was just American imperialistic tendency to protect its own interest. “ They were effusive in their gratitude to the antiwar movement and their struggles was their own and that history was on their side (pg.270, Gitlin)” Like many Americans, the students were moved so much that they had to be a part of the anti war movement, they were not communist in any nature they disagreed with the government, but they still remain loyal to the democratic values of the nation. By focusing student action on an issue such as the draft, students not only addressed their own issues concerning student control of universities, but also addressed the larger issue of the Vietnam War. Students did not care for the war as they portrayed, the draft is their really objective. Members of the SDS used the draft as important issue to attract more students and attack the university, because the university has the class ranking to determine who was to be drafted. Some can say that anyone that in that position would do what is necessary to not be drafted, even if that means joining the herd and becoming part of the populous conformity. These actions tied together foreign policy problems with domestic conflicts which made it much easier for the SDS to dramatize America's problems. Niche said that for the life to be meaningful they have to be a tension in the bow and that lives is a chaos and had no meaning. After the Columbia uprising, the SDS strategy for resistant consisted of defiant radical confrontation at institution, which would further reduce the respect for the institution.Even thought the mass American population supported the administration policy in Vietnam, a small outspoken minority were making their voices heard. These revolutionaries were not just hippies, but intellectuals and growing number of young people who rejected authority and embraced the drug culture. Supporting Bloom argument, one can stay that the rest of the activist were joining only to seek attention to have their morals met to wanting to change the nation that was not ready to improve. The universities were certainly not equipped for this The morality of Kant, obey the law and not lie and pay back what you owe, but the students wanted to be the fighters against the tyrants, bloom said that none of them faced the danger tyranny they took on the weak. The professors knew the powers that the students possessed and that surpassed their ability to contain the situation in their campus. The professor now had to bow down to the masses, the university was not there to teach you anything, but to help you find yourself. The mass became the students lead organization, particularly the SDS.The professors no longer had a sense of superior knowledge and necessary what it means to have a education and be an educated human being, it was radicalized that the university was no longer there for anything. Why have a university? The liberal art collapsed and it now just became about finding a job, giving themselves over to the democratic movement in which there was no standard of what to include and exclude. The only standards was radical egalitarianism. “There is less freedom in the university than ever before”. If it wasn’t a part of a movement toward equality than it should not be part of the university and the only morality left in a university was a democratic progressivism. It was no longer a place for theory and thought, the university had to become engaged to write the wrong of society. If you are not part of moral progress than you are enemy of moral progress. According to the U.S. Department of Education more than half all college undergrads now choose business, engineering or nursing. Humanities and the liberals only account for 10 percent of all majors. The tragedy of the education, the students and institution no longer encourage the learning of Shakespeare or Socrates, they are however embracing the vocation equation to find a job, but not prepared to work and solve real world problems in local and international communities.
Removing all the curriculum that did not please the fascism of the egalitarianism. Bloom says that is a terrible disaster that happened, because in the past students would go to Europe get an education, but now the American were the best University. On the other hand, Allan bloom application of SDS was anything but promoting peace and equality he mentions in his book “Students and colleagues wanted to radicalize and politicize the university”. Like the German professor the American professors were not ready for the change that was about to sweep the University. I want to talk about the SDS from Todd Gitlin point before I begin to dismantle from bloom views. “ Everything these people did was charged with intensity, they lived as life mattered profoundly”. James Forman's phrases the SDS as a brothers standing in a circle of love because they shared the history from coming from broken families, and others found unity is the sense they want to be part of a community of peers that took them seriously. The movement was purely American, In that it was important to be anti-communist since the SDS was a department of the League for Industrial Democracy (LID) whose faith was anti communist. In the 60s bloom beliefs there was more conformity because everything had to be democratic with labels and a place for mindless conformity in the price of threat. The other part is the Morality is a nonsense, an examination of the moral decay and the students claim they were moral superior because they were committed. The simple morality is to obey the law and you do not lie, which the students did not like, instead the wanted a grant morality, they want to be fights against tyrant, which he believes were make beliefs. Some would say that in order for society to exist the society as a whole whether it be students, educators, politicians must share number of moral virtues to be considerate of one another’s well-being and school have to play a vital role to keep that instilled in the students to help develop a good character in the education movement. The teachers no longer believed in the vocation of higher education and gave way to the mass to change the content of their curriculum. Such that at Cornell University the president was physically assaulted and even the economic chair to be held hostage for several hours. Moralities are embedded in traditions, and the conception what it means to be human. Sacrifice and resistance to the what feels good, it was no longer obeying the law, but breaking it that felt good. Furthermore, they want to affirm their commitment to democracy, the only good was equality, peace without conflict to one another and there wasn’t a very great risk in a democracy, but they didn’t understand democracy and the devotion to one's country. The only thing that mattered was freedom and liberating from the last restriction and less restraint. Like their Germans counterpart the American professors were left to stand alone, there silence were the guarantee of their acceptance in the society by the students.Students have now accepted all the power, the use of civil force would have easily brought any argument to peace, but the university according to bloom protected and encouraged violators of academic freedom. Value commitment is a key factor to education because it influence the learning process, or as Fraser, Draper and Taylor would say it is a psychological identification of the individual teacher with the school and the subject matter or goals and the intention for the teacher to maintain organizational membership to remain in the job well beyond personal interest. Commitment to take the job seriously and put it as part of their professional identity greatly lacked in the sixties as fascism took over German education it has spread well across the american education as teacher no longer held the power to education and responsibility for education. It tells each individual that they are unique. The value of relativism, you have your own lifestyle and not part of the herd. American has distorted fascism to a lifestyle choice( hair color, movie choice). Traditional authority,people go along with tradition, worst thing tradition has is bureaucracy no one believes in anything anymore the institution has no connection to the past. The university lost its connection to past literature and scholars that was essential in the establishment of what the university stood for. Bureaucracy is the worst kind out of all. Value relativism indulges our worst aspect. You have closed your mind, not allowing the criticism and leads to failures to examine our self. German universities were overtaken in the 1930s. The University students were destined to join the Nazi party, which provided job security and an outlet for their aggression and closeness. German professors and administrations did not want to give their power to the government, but in fear of their student rebellion, losing their jobs they gave into Nazi regime. Students no longer have connection to their lives anymore, knowledge and wisdom can no longer be contained in a book, but they have turned the eyes to the visuals of storytelling and movies in which the use the movements as there stages to show the world what the new intimate connection to their lives were the lack of connection to the tradition and the powerful connection to an enthusiastic new culture that cuts across all races. “but nothing influenced me, or the baby-boom generation as a whole, as much as movies, music, and comics did ”.Value of relativism like discussed in the earlier chapters with Floyd ideas that what is fundamental to men in rational and in democratic society, we believe in democracy and the consent and rational people which are now the member of the SDS, which as Floyd hated and bloom can agree the new democracy in America was self oppression and mass conformity. Abstract is suited for weak individual that can only do things as a group.Resentment , we don’t want to believe one man has power over us and we resent heroism. We are a busy/practical people and we don't have time and leisure to study. Theory is made for simplification and free the mind so that you don't have to think about it, giving us a vague abstraction to make us think we know everything. Pre packages abstraction keeps you from thinking and entertains alternative and judging things on your own.This support bloom argument that how can one be fun to learn, when the mental state to justify reasoning is gone, yes it might be seen as a harmless indulgence, but the effect on the university control of the students were gradually fading. Alliance for the youth culture became the hope for the new culture, they set themselves as the target for the New Left who, were the enemy that consisted of the adults, the institution and the culture. The New Left was a young student based movement. Gitlin writes, “Suppose the SDS stood for students-as-a-whole, and students-as-a-whole stood for the young”. By the mid 1960s the New Left was quickly gaining recognition and support from not only students but also from individuals within the art and music community that helped to popularize the movement. The kids at the best university were resentful, because they live in a democratic process and they dispose the democratic process. No matter how educated you are, everyone is equal and the students wanted a short cut,and became a spokesperson for the oppressed and they became the compassionate. Bloom believes that was hypocrisy and they disposed the middle class, they became the voice and turned to leaders and we no longer have to go through the democratic process. They did not care about the people they represent, they care only about themselves, there is no moral concern. They are phony and actors, they played as greater leader and they believe the lies about themselves and the nation with the aid of the media the nation also believed, they only like equality if they are the leader of the movement and elite of the egalitarian, the student just wanted a shortcut to the elitism to democracy. The students did not understand the responsibility they only wanted the glory to pretend something that are not like a great play that the university was there theater. There was a secret ambitious for glory and bloom says what the students really needed was philosophy which the university needed to cater to the genuine to the elitism. The realization was democratic fans made that only wanted to satisfy their vanity for people they did not care or know about. The decline idea that citizens are supposed to be dedicated to our country, but you cannot have that if you are multiculturalism, because that will be bad for liberal Education, liberating one self for prejudice. in order to have a liberal education you have to have a prejudice and think and explain about you are prejudice and correct your opinion. Liberal education is difficult because you need to have a free mind, but also be prejudice because it is all relativism. Openness creates indifference to truth tot whether you are right or wrong.Ultimately openness becomes conformity.a democracy that is opened to everything and tolerate everything, New education is a closing of the mind, shutting down alternative. “They seem to think they were responsible for great progress in relations between whites and blacks, that they played the key role in the civil rights movement”. SDS mostly limited most activity to off- campus walks and rallies that restricted their educational programs by losing conference and distributing literature. All that changed with the Berkeley Free Speech Movement that was organized by the students of the University of California, Berkeley that was a protest of several thousand students gathered to discuss how to deal with freedom of speech movement (FSM), this movement grew out of students involvement in the Civil Rights movement and became a sign of the power of the student activism that would be a trademark of the 1960s.Because of this identification, students began to desire the same structure for their universities as they had for the nation: participatory democracy. SDS believed that students should control the universities, thereby destroying the school's' links to corporate and military power. The Port Huron Statement suggests, "the fundamental qualities of life on campus reflect the habits of society at large." The goal set forward in the Port Huron Statement was the creation of a radically new democratic political movement in the United States that rejected hierarchy and bureaucracy.We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit.First line of The Port Huron Statement.They wanted to be part of the forces to defeat the problems.Therefore, the students thought that in order to change society, they must start by changing the university. In response the FSM was formed on October 4 with the goal of gaming the rights to free speech for student activists. But before that on April 1960 the Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee emerged from a student meeting organized by Ella Baker. “ So there was substance, real life, behind the language of love, which the movement spoke without embarrassment. Love is the central motif of nonviolence, said SNCC’s founding statement”. In the earlier chapter Bloom talks about Cornell university in relation to studies were carted for the black students increasing the goals for enrollment of blacks. Integration was for the old whites, and black power hit he university like a tail wave, because black students became second class, not because they did not succeeded academically but they were “ forced to imitate white culture.” The black students soon became a way that could change the university, because achievement of average black student’s do not equal those of the average white student in the universities. “They believe that everyone doubts their merit, their capacity for equal achievement”. The highest achievement of the sixties were the civil right, that we do not belong to our race, but to humanity. The great hope was to overcome racial income, and bloom believes it has not succeeded. The hope everyone would become color blind and have easy relations, bloom blames the universities because ivy leagues decided to use affirmative action example Cornell, had a very aggressive promotional representation of affirmative action and it was a disaster because African American students were not prepared and they failed, bloom blames the administration because they have failed to prepare them. This led to a black movement among students to segregate them in their teaching styles of education. In the 60s they trashed the whole american history and also the race and commitment, the civil right is the victim of the 60s that the idea of racial equality is destroyed. “Nor did they partake in the hard and low-profile labors of those who studied constitutional law and prepared legal briefs, those who spent lonely and frustrating years, whose lives were truly dedicated to a cause”.The 60s the students did not contribute to the movement as much as they thought they did, it is the collapse of the university and the civil right movement and nothing really redeeming about the movement, which contract the moral concern. Bloom says the he believed the last significant student participation in the civil rights movement was in the march on Washington in 1964. The march showed the injustice and inequalities that black Americans faced simply because of the color of their skins. The March on Washington changed from being a faculty based activism to student based activism, students became more active in the movement. The growing militancy in SDS was paralleled and accelerated by the radicalization of the civil rights movement. The 1965 Voting Rights Act, which legally ended Jim Crow segregation, shifted the focus of the civil rights movement away from the South to the northern cities. The move was highlighted by a series of urban rebellions, the end of Jim Crow has done little to alleviate the problem facing Blacks. The end of Jim Crow had done little to alleviate the problems facing Blacks in the North--poverty, unemployment and police brutality. Activists were confronted with a structural racism that was intertwined with the very heart of capitalism in the U.S. And in the North, activists were increasingly at odds with--if not in outright opposition to--their liberal supporters of a couple years earlier. More and more, Black activists were turning from the call for "civil rights" to the demand for "Black Power.” The movement wanted to be both strategic and expressive to win civil rights. I believe that the students wanted to change the race relations in America, but the lack of unity within the SDS and SSNS gave to a different movement of that Martin Luther King. Todd Gitlin mentions that one-third of them were white in the Lincoln Memorial on August 28 that were walking advertisement for racial integration. Ultimately, Gitlin and Bloom bought came to the same conclusion. Although bloom point was written from outside looking in and at Cornell University, Gitlin person experience in the organization takes the readers on a journey the movement went through. The New Left was first charged with energy to actually progress and change the norm of society. Education was supposed to be the movement from darkness to light. But now students remains bewildered in variety of departments with no guidance of what to study. There is no longer the requirement of general education and longing to know the history of great literature, we are simply getting educated to have a career objective the might be conventionally respectable. The results were not what they hoped for, the results of their curriculum movement to improved education backfired as test scores dropped and enrollment in the university failed, the public confidence for the professors are was eroded. If the University cannot control their students and the institution, what bases do they have to the power to teach and influence the student. The university began and continue till this day lacks in emphasizing reading, writing etc. and professors are no longer accountable. The SDS, as political organization failed because it failed because its members couldn't stand up to the original stands and vision in the Port Huron Statement.SDS wanted equality and racial income. Equality has entered into the consciousness in the American idea and now has become a new fundamental american virtue. In the end all that was left was the individual send and more entering not a herd society, which is a conformist society that just moved together because the believed of the popular culture. “ New left failed to produce the political leaders one might have expected of a movement so vast: it devalued too much intelligence, was too ambivalent about personal prowess”. As the Vietnam war intensified, it contributed to the harm of the SDS goals as they started for a peaceful organization later turned to an increased in violence and resistance. I also believe that the structure of the SDS also aided to their demise, because there no regulation on memberships and meeting were not intelligent debates, it was a match with no order. It ultimately became a chaotic group a far lapse for the unified group that was in original intent. Yes, they had also success in the Civil rights movement, but that is not because of their doing, but of the SNCC. SNCC was effective, because they had supported the changes demanded by the protesters. The SDS didn’t have a focused goal, it was broad and revolutionary. As a nation, we need to take a step back and get back to what a higher learning can offer for students and society. Human being as a whole needs a meaning and understanding to life and each other, but we have been so technical in finding a job that we have lost our values to the purpose of the university, but i’m not sure that we can any longer afford to. True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence the awareness of ignorance. To deny the possibility of knowing good and bad is to suppress true openness. Bloom says that during the 60s no book of great importance was produced because students do not have an intimate connection to their lives anymore, knowledge and wisdom can no longer can be contained in a book, but instead they have turned their eyes to movies.Because they do not have connection to books they haven't connection to art and the movies have replaced the story and the visual. Movies are now the substituted. Ultimately the collapse of the University is the Collapse of the mind. The value crisis that reason cannot support life, if reason cannot support life and life is about commitment than those who have commitment should rule, and this is a great disaster for the United States and any place of higher life was in existence of the university. For Bloom the crisis of university is the crisis of humanity.I agree with bloom that the crisis of the the university which was then linked to be the central American dream since the nation founding, no longer emerges as the necessity of the fundamental values for opportunity and that leads to the crisis in humanity no longer wanting knowledge. The 60s made everything equal, but cut off the peak of human existent. Bloom believed that there has been so much loss of learning that you cannot recover it over night. With the respect of the leveling effect, the curriculum were changed and the required studies that were basic were no longer necessary and destroyed, now the students can take whatever they wishes.
“Say what we will about the Sixties’ failures, limits, disaster, America’s political and cultural space would probably would not have opened up as much as it did without the movement’s divine delirium”. In the beginning the members of the SDS did find a real flaw in the democracy of America, and truly wanted to transform and give students a better representation. Although toward the end their non violence methods, did turn radical the SDS allowed us to have a vision of the important elements that education and society. Yearning to believe that there is an alternative to human enterprise, they allowed the students to spark a change and become the engine of change that is still empowers the college students today. SDS revolution set the groundwork for other student movement in America to evolve and make their voices head and produce a real effect to solve world problems. Yet even as SDS broke apart, campus radicalism and antiwar sentiment were still supported by a majority of students,The reason why education was effected was because the lack of control of events that surrounded the sixties people would not be able to communicate effectively after assembling. Can American education ever reach the peak it once had? I don’t think so, the University has evolved so much to a vocation institution that is focused heavily on profit it no longer seeks to promote a liberated education. We have ways to go to bring back our education to a liberal education that teaches the student to teach outside the box and not simply seek an education to become another tax payer.