The Victims’ Revolution

As the value of university education in the Western world continues to rise—as enrolment rates have grown and tuition fees have climbed— institutions of higher learning have changed.
They have, of course, changed physically and financially—gotten bigger, grown richer—but they have also changed in fundamental ways, ways involving methodology, curricula, and most especially epistemology, that field of knowledge concerned with the very nature of knowledge, including how it is divided by discipline.
Such changes are, for the most part, however, insider secrets.
Like democratic governments, the images and reputations of universities continue to foster raw, even romantic idealism, emphasizing broad, philosophical generalities rather than administrative or pedagogical specifics.
Universities, many still believe, are places of free thought and unreserved intellectual excitement.
They are the ivy-filigreed sanctuaries where the greatest works and ideas of humankind are traded like sports cards, where, at any moment, a roaming professor—like a tweedy Socrates—will deliver an impromptu lecture alfresco, where minds are laid open to the stars.
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Prudentia Politica