Leo Strauss Quote

A mass culture is a culture which can be appropriated by the meanest capacities without any intellectual or moral effort whatsoever. … Liberal education is the counterpoison to mass culture, to the corroding effects of mass culture, to its inherent tendency to produce nothing but specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.

What is liberal education, p. 5 [The phrase specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart. is from Max Weber] - Liberalism Ancient and Modern (1968)