"The elite universities disdain honest intellectual inquiry, wich is by its nature distrustful of authority, fiercely independent, and often subversive. They organize learning around minutely specialised disciplines, narrow answers and rigid structures designed to produce such answers. The established corporate hierarchies these institutions service -economic, political, and social- come with clear parameters, such as the primacy of an unfettered free market, and also with a highly specialised vocabulary. This vocabulary, a sign of the specialist and, of course, the elitist, thwarts universal understanding. It destroys the search for the common good. It dices disciplines  faculty, students, and finally experts into tiny, specialised fragments. It allows students and faculty to retreat into these self-imposed fiefdoms and neglect the most pressing moral, political, and cultural questions."

     (Fragment from the book "Empire Of Illusion, The End Of Literacy And The Triumph of Spectacle" by CHRIS HEDGES)