War And Education (Paperback)

WAR AND EDUCATION WAR AND EDUCATION BY PORTER SARGENT PORTER SARGENT 11 BEACON STREET, BOSTON, MASS. IN THIS BOOK LET US DO OBEISANCE NOT TO THE DEAD OR DYING GODS, THE GREAT GOD BUNK, THE REVERED GODDESS ALMA MATER, NOR TO IRVIN COBBS AUTO-GOD HASTE OR WILLIAM JAMES BITCH-GODDESS SUCCESS, BUT TO WHATEVER LIVING GODS MAY BE, THE UNKNOWN GODS, NEW GODS TO FIT A NEW AGE, GODS IN THE IMAGE OF MAN THAT IS TO BE, HIM OF THE TOUGHER IDEALS, THE STOUTER FAITH, WHO CAN FACE THE NEW REALITIES UNFLINCHINGLY AND FIND A WAY. TABLE OF CONTENTS THIS WAR, THIS EDUCATION How the abstractions ff tvaT and education, so much in peoples minds, cover a multitude of sins. How our - present systems of education make possible our wars. THIS TITLE 15 HERE ARE TWO ABSTRACTIONS ADJUSTMENT IS THE REALITY THIS BOOK 19 RELATION BETWEEN EDUCATION AND WAR THE SCIENTIFIC AP PROACH THE LONG VIEW THESES VS. HYPOTHESES FAITH IN THE SPECIES NO BLUEPRINT READJUSTMENT NECESSARY FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES IGNORED How our tbougbtways and institutions remain tinadjusted to power and technology of today. How the struggle for political power and the resistance to change have brought, instead of the economic abundance possible, war and waste. POWER INCREASE 25 HOUSEWIFES HORSEPOWER AMERICA THE GREATEST PRODUCER MANS PUNY ONE-TENTH FROM MUSCLE POWER TO GRAND COULEE TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCE 29 LAZINESS LEADS TO INVENTION THE MARCH OF CIVILIZATION TECHNOLOGIES AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR WAR STIMULATES INVENTION WHAT MAY COME OUT OF THE WAR ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES 37 STONE AGE ECONOMICS A BRIEF HISTORY OF CAPITALISM 1 THE HIGH COST OF KILLING ECONOMIC WARFARE FAMINE AND PESTI LENCE HATRED AND CIVIL WAR ABUNDANCE POSSIBLE BLINDNESS AND WASTE POLITICALEFFECTS 49 LINGERING FEUDALISM PYRAMIDING POLITICAL POWER RIGHTS WITHOUT POWER WAR ACCELERATES POLITICAL ADJUSTMENT SOCIAL REPERCUSSIONS 53 INERTIA OPPOSES CHANGE THE NEW MUST BE BOOTLEGGED IN IN STITUTIONS OBSOLETE UNADJUSTED TO THE METHOD OF SCIENCE RECOGNITION OF DEMORALIZATION WAR BRINGS CHANGE WAR AND EDUCATION SNBENCIES BECOME TRENDS How improved communication has accelerated - unification of the iftz b l building of a common ideology, centralization of po liticm - potver and nationalizing of education. CENTRALIZING TENDENCIES 65 SOCIAL TRENDS TOWARD MANAGED ECONOMY THE TOTALITARIAN CHALLENGE MANAGERIAL CONTROL LEGALIZING WHAT IS UNIFYING THE NATION 71 TOWARD A MORE PERFECT UNION PROMOTED BY BETTER TRANSPOR TATION ADVERTISING AND PUBLIC OPINION NEW MEANS OF COM MUNICATION SPREAD OF A COMMON IDEOLOGY NATIONALIZING EDUCATIONAL CONTROL 79 EDUCATIONAL VARIATION FOUNDING OF OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM SHIFTING CONTROL HOME, COMMUNITY, STATE, FEDERAL THE TAX SUPPORTED SCHOOL EUROPEAN INFLUENCES FEDERAL AID IN CREASING GOVERNMENT CONTROL THE EFFECTS OF WAR EDUCATORS UNAWARE How educators, uninformed of inevitable trends, deaf to warn ings, en-meshed in their own confusions, were unprepared to interpret events or to meet the approaching crisis. WAR PREDICTED BY THE WISE 89 EDUCATORS SURPRISED FATE AND FORESIGHT MEN OF VISION THREATS TO BRITAINS DOMINATION TRADE DECLINES DIPLOMATIC BREAKDOWN VOICES PROPHESYING WAR CONFUSED EDUCATORS 105 GREAT EXPECTATIONS THE DISILLUSIONED TWENTIES THE MUDDLED THIRTIES CHRONIC CONFUSION CROSS PURPOSES AND CONFLICTING PRACTICES WORSE CONFOUNDED BY WAR ESCAPE FROM ADJUSTMENT How our teachers and leaders, to avoid the pain of adjustment, have resisted change and tendedto turn back to the past. How the disturbing ideas of outsiders produced ferment...