ABSTRACT

The French word culture suggests something rather different from either 'education' or 'culture' in English, being a sort of combination of both with an additional overtone. What the educator has to notice is that all the fuss is about something learned. A very important facet of educational change already noted is the alteration in the numbers and origins of those at school. Education now includes a larger element of formal schooling, and that formal schooling is specialized in formerly unprecedented ways. In education in particular, certain technical devices have been taken as infallible outward signs of inward grace. Therefore an uninterrupted opportunity for education is a necessary condition for health and sanity, both for individuals and for the manifold groups that make up society. Education is energetically canvassed and generously provided in communistic countries, not with reference to 'absolutes', 'human rights', and dignity but in relation to the planned exploitation of all resources on earth, human as well as material.