AND MORE !!!! (5)

SCIENCE AND EDUCATION :

We progress only in knowledge.
More and more completely we pass on to the next generation the gathered experience of the past.It is almost a contemporary innovation, this tremendous expenditure of wealth and labor in the equipment of schools and the provision of instruction for all, perhaps it is the most significant feature of our time. Once colleges were luxuries, designed for the male half of the leisure class, today universities are so numerous that he/she who runs may very well become a PhD. We have raised the level and average of human knowledge far beyond any age in history. Education is the reason why we behave like human beings. We are hardly born human, we are born ridiculous and maladjusted animals, we become human through the mental and cultural inheritance, through humanity whose preservation,accumulation,and transmission place mankind today. In the perspective of history the great experiment of education is just began.


WRITING AND PRINT :

Again our imagination is too weak, we cannot vision or recall the long ages of ignorance, impotence, and fear that preceded the coming of the letters. Through those unrecorded centuries men could transmit their hard-won lore only by word of mouth from parent to child, if one generation forgot or misunderstood, the slow and weary ladder of knowledge had to be climbed anew. Writing gave a new permanence to the achievements of the mind, it preserved for thousands of years, and through a millennium of poverty and superstition, the wisdom found by philosophy and the beauty carved out in drama and poetry. it bound the generations together with a common heritage, it created that country of the mind in which, because of writing, genius need not die.


See you all tomorrow with the finale.