From Cookson & Persell's `Preparing For Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools'--Part 12

In their 1985 book, Preparing For Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools, Peter W. Cookson Jr. and Cardine Hodges Persell wrote the following about counter-cultural student radical activism and student rebellion within the U.S. power elite's private school and elite prep school educational system:

“Not all students, of course, participate in school politics…The guerrilla leaders who emerge and flourish in the student underlife—or counter-culture—may have far greater real power than the `superschoolies” that tend to get elected to public office…”