In many countries of Western Europe, the numbers of students in higher education doubled within five-year periods during the 1960s and doubled again in seven, eight, or ten years by the middle of the 1970s.
In one study, people got a phone from a woman who said the operator had given her their number by mistake, and she was now out of change at a pay phone.
Professor C.S. Lewis tells of an Oxford undergraduate he knew who, priggishly despising the conventional images of God, thought he was overcoming anthropomorphism by thinking of the Deity as infinite vapor or smoke.
Staub has found that such people have three defining characteristics: They have a positive view of people in general, they are concerned about others welfare and they take personal responsibility for how other people are doing.
If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young.