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Education Is A Slow-moving But Powerful Force. It May Not Be Fast Enough Or Strong Enough To Save Us From Catastrophe, But It Is The Strongest Force Available For That Purpose And In Its Proper Place, Therefore, Is Not At The Periphery, But At The Center Of International Relations.

Naturepitiless In A Pitiless Universeis Certainly Not Concerned With The Survival Of Americans Or, For That Matter, Of Any Of The Two Billion People Now Inhabiting This Earth. Hence, Our Destiny, With The Aid Of God, Remains In Our Own Hands.

We Are Trying To Remake Vietnamese Society, A Task Which Certainly Cannot Be Accomplished By Force And Which Probably Cannot Be Accomplished By Any Means Available To Outsiders.

The Preservation Of Our Free Society In The Years And Decades To Come Will Depend Ultimately On Whether We Succeed Or Fail In Directing The Enormous Power Of Human Knowledge To The Enrichment Of Our Own Lives And The Shaping Of A Rational And Civilized World Order....it Is The Task Of Education, More Than Any Other Instrument Of Foreign Policy To Help Close The Dangerous Gap Between The Economic And Technological Interdependence Of The People Of The World And Their Psychological, Political And Spiritual Alienation.

What A Curious Picture It Is To Find Man, Homo Sapiens, Of Divine Origin, We Are Told, Seriously Considering Going Underground To Escape The Consequences Of His Own Folly. With A Little Wisdom And Foresight, Surely It Is Not Yet Necessary To Forsake Life In The Fresh Air And In The Warmth Of The Sunlight. What A Paradox If Our Own Cleverness In Science Should Force Us To Live Underground With The Moles.