ABSTRACT
One philosopher, the great Alfred North Whitehead, wrote the following about the meaning of culture which has been giving us so much trouble in these pages: Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and human feeling. A merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth. What one should aim at producing is men who possess both culture and expert knowledge in some special direction. Their expert knowledge will give them the ground to start from, and their culture will lead them as deep as philosophy and as high as art. It is the aspect of liberal and humane innocence which engages all the illusions about information and expertise; our self-deception about literacy and mass communication; our careless mistakes and grievous errors about the useful and constructive function of press and television–or "media"–in a democratic culture.
