Peter F. Drucker Boxed Set (8 Books) (The Drucker Library)

CHAPTER FOUR

This Romantic Generation

“I AM MOTHER O’Rourke,” the voice on the telephone said. “I am Dean of Students at a large Catholic women’s college. Mother President and all our faculty very much hope that you will accept our invitation to talk to our girls on social issues and their importance. Ten years ago our students were deeply interested in labor relations, international relations, and in other major social and political problems. Now they care only for matters of conscience and personal behavior, such as civil rights, a ‘personal philosophy of life,’ or the size of their own future family and how to raise it. That’s wonderful, of ...