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Ic00018136 ., "~ Re eee his emotional development, however, remains at the age of the temper tantrum, Additionally, Bettelheim writes that under the present system of higher education, the student feels unable to find his place in a rapidly evolving world. He believes he is unneeded and unwanted — and thus seeks escape in revolutionary change. Bettelheim recom- mends that the structure of higher education in the early stages be altered along the lines of Soviet Russian practice that provides edu- cation combined with meaningful work in the student's chosen field. Then after several years of this the really determined and academi- cally dedicated youth enters an even higher educational level, and the ad others, with some secondary specilization, assimulate gracefully into = the national work force. By working while learning the student would not feel alienated from society and frustrated by the alienation because he would regard himself as a part of a society he had helped to form. Interestingly, President Nixon. has made generalized recommendations along the Bettelheim line. Antioch College, at both the home campus, (Yellow Springs,Ohio) and the newly instituted branch at Columbia, Maryland, has adopted this combined workewhile learning system. tri Donald Barr, former Columbia University administrator and | — present headmaster of an exclusive New York private school accuses today's comfortable middle class parents, Writing in McCall's maga- zine, Barr believes the elders do not disapprove of what the kids are doing. Anxious to be modern, they reward precocity. Such parents have produced children who set a most extraordinary value on their own opinions. The child at the center of a child-ccentered household tae. is likely to be a monster of intolerance.- Children never respect what they have never been without and therefore the New Left does not hesi- tate openly to interfere with free speech. Barr writes that on the day that parents stop paying for non- education; on the day they stop handing out allowances for strike funds and narcotics and renting apartments the student revolution will wither away and the real learning that must precede intelligent social change - will begin. sO University of New York's Arnold Rogow, a political sicentist equates childhood sexual conflicts with the political spectrum. Based on a study of forty-two case histories (probably an insufficient number to assure statistical reliability) Rogow declares that left-wingers are permissive toward sex and right-wingers are anti-permissive. The left-wing personality on an unconscious level has reacted against re- we straints on sexual behavior and this leads to a revolt against the status ote TT ee