The Philosophic Aim Of Education Must Be

Freud Pointed Out, In His Problem Of Lay Analysis, That It Is Extremely Unlikely That A Young Man Who Would Throw The Best Years Of His Life Into The Cloistered Drudgery Of Getting An M.d. Degree, Could Possibly Make A Good Psychoanalyst; So He Preferred To Look For Young Analysts Among The Writers, The Lawyers, The Mothers Of Families, Those Who Had Chosen Human Contact. But In Their Economic Wisdom, The Psychoanalytic Institute Of Vienna (and New York) Overruled Him.

When We Choose A Man To Beautify Our Towns, We Do Not Automatically Call On The Major Artists Of The World. ... We Now Lavishly Praise Frank Lloyd Wright, But We Never Made Any Community Use Of Him, Though He Longed For The Chance.

The Irony Is That In Our Decades, The Combination Of Rationalism, Asceticism, And Individualism (the So-called Protestant Ethic) Has Produced Precisely The System Of Boondoggling, Luxury-consumption, And Status.

We Do Not Behave As If We Believed That The Affairs Of Our World Were Significant Enough For The Intervention Of Great Men.

In A Milieu Of Resignation, Where The Young Men Think Of Society As A Closed Room In Which There Are No Values But The Rejected Rat Race, ... It Is Extremely Hard To Aim At Objective Truth Or World Culture. One's Own Products Are Likely To Be Personal Or Parochial.