We Are Only Just Beginning To Understand

The Problem Of Far Greater Importance Remains To Be Solved. Rather Than Build A World In Which We Shall All Live Well, We Must Stop Building One In Which It Will Be Impossible To Live At All.

A Culture Must Be Reasonably Stable, But It Must Also Change, And It Will Presumably Be Strongest If It Can Avoid Excessive Respect For Tradition And Fear Of Novelty On The One Hand And Excessively Rapid Change On The Other.

Many Social Practices Essential To The Welfare Of The Species Involve The Control Of One Person By Another, And No One Can Suppress Them Who Has Any Concern For Human Achievements

Each Of Us Has Interests Which Conflict The Interests Of Everybody Else... 'everybody Else' We Call 'society'. It's A Powerful Opponent And It Always Wins. Oh, Here And There An Individual Prevails For A While And Gets What He Wants. Sometimes He Storms The Culture Of A Society And Changes It To His Own Advantage. But Society Wins In The Long Run, For It Has The Advantage Of Numbers And Of Age.

Many Instructional Arrangements Seem "contrived," But There Is Nothing Wrong With That. It Is The Teacher's Function To Contrive Conditions Under Which Students Learn. It Has Always Been The Task Of Formal Education To Set Up Behavior Which Would Prove Useful Or Enjoyable Later In A Student's Life.