Texas Rawhide in Academia

“Elitism, like aristocracy, has its proper and its mistaken forms. Elitism is mistaken only when it creates an elite whose qualifications are nonexistent or irrelevant.”

Although egalitarianism appears to be the principal ideology at most of our universities today, John R. Silber, president of Boston University, is strongly promoting the concept, and what he hopes will be the achievement, of elitism.