The Significance, Interrelationships, and Ordering of Value Systems

Abstract

As we look around the world today, we readily see in what an educa­tional turmoil it is. There is hardly a country in which university students have not revolted against established procedures and values. In the United States the issue has spread into the high school systems. We find, in short, a revolt of the consumer of educational fare. What he is getting, he doesn't like. One can look at this as a generation struggle, youth versus intellectually atrophied elders, or as a struggle against de-humanized educational bureaucratic structures, i.e. against the style of life foisted upon the student by such social systems, or as a power struggle by contending groups for the direction and administra­tion of educational institutions, or what is perhaps more decisive and underlying all the foregoing, a value conflict which includes not only the universities and lower schools but extends to the society at large.