Student revolt

Student dissent has led to widespread criticism of the educational establishment. Some of this criticism was evoked from the very nature of the authoritarian responses to student revolt in places as widely separated as Paris, Berkeley, New York, Mexico City and Beijing.

1. When the educational system remains the exclusive preserve of an intellectual elite, the product of the bourgeois class which built the system and continues to dictate its laws and moral values, students become confused by the divorce between an outmoded education and the reality of the world around them. They become frustrated, dissipate their energies, grow bored or put their hopes in radical protest.

2. One reason why the Tiananmen students presented such a dangerous threat to the old men in the forbidden city was that the scholar class had defected to their side. After 10 years lobbying from within, the bulk of reform-minded scholars had come out in a petition to release China's political prisoners.

1. Social conflict
2. Intellectual dissent
3. Disruptive behaviour in institutions
4. Civil violence
5. Anti-social behaviour

1. Political agitation

1. Intimidation in educational institutions
2. Inhumane methods of riot control
3. Graffiti
4. Denial of rights to students
5. Civil disorders

1. Student press weakness
2. Political impotence of youth
3. Inadequate university education
4. Government student agitators
5. Generation communication gap
6. Educational authoritarianism
7. Denial of freedom of thought
8. Anti-intellectualism

1. Social apathy
2. Political apathy

1. Religious riots
2. Fragmentation of organized students
3. Disruptive behaviour in schools

1. Researching anti-social behaviour of university students
2. Quieting student unrest
3. Protesting
4. Engaging in student revolution
5. Engaging in riots
6. Controlling riots

1. Dissension
2. Riot
3. Unsociable
4. Revolution
5. Unrest