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The breaking away from the prison house of Brooklyn is gradual.

First, the student trains on his hapless parents the heavy artillery of his newly acquired psychological and sociological insights.

Then, with the new affluence, there is actually a sallying forth into the wide, wide world beyond the precincts of New York.

It is significant that the Catskills, which used to be the summer playground for older teen-agers, a kind of summer suburb of New York, no longer attracts them in great numbers -- except for those who work there as waiters, bus boys, or counselors in the day camps.

The great world beyond beckons.

But it should be pointed out that some of the new watering places -- Fire Island, Nantucket, Westhampton, Long Island, for example -- tend to be homogeneously Jewish.

Although Brooklyn College does not yet have a junior-year-abroad program, a good number of students spend summers in Europe.

In general, however, the timetable of travel lags considerably behind that of the student at Harvard or Smith.

And acculturation into the world at large is likely to occur for the Brooklyn College student after college rather than during the four school years.