[The citizen] is the new barbarian ... This new barbarian is above all the professional man, more learned than before, but at the same time more uncultured - the engineer, the physician, the lawyer, the scientist.

... the contemporary university has abandoned almost entirely the teaching of transmission of culture.

Civilization has had to await the beginning of the 20th century, to see the astounding spectacle of how brutal, how stupid, and yet how aggressive is the man learned in one thing and fundamentally ignorant of all else. Professionalism and specialism, through insufficient counterbalancing, have smashed the European [western] man in pieces; and he is consequently missing at all the points where he claims to be, and is badly needed.