“'If the schools are doing their job,' A. E. Bestor has written, 'we should expect educators to point to the significant and indisputable achievement in raising the intellectual level of the nation—measured perhaps by larger per capita circulation of books and serious magazines, by definitely improved taste in movies and radio programs, by higher standards of political debate, by increased respect for freedom of speech and of thought, [and] by marked decline in such evidences of mental retardation as the incessant reading of comic books by adults.'”
| — | C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite |
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