The Industrial Age Roots of General Education

I can't judge how accurate this account is as a whole, but it raises some intriguing points. For example, this passage ties student indebtedness to the decline in radicalism.

> Noam Chomsky sounded a similar note in 2014 when he described the emergence of a business model ... keeping the student body burdened by debt and, thus, less likely to repeat the student activism of the 1960s.

I also like how the articles tie the general shape of the Information Revolution to the emerging gaps in higher education.