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Hesketh Pearson, in writing his biography of Benjamin Disraeli, threw in this paragraph:
“Nearly all the famous Victorians cherished an innocent belief in the mental and spiritual advantages of general education; but after eighty years of enforced instructions we are beginning to wonder whether a level of intelligence that enables the majority to enjoy the ^products— of Hollywood, while a minority dis covers how to blow the world to bits, exactly realizes the dreams of those hopeful pioneers- The solution of the problem seems to be that children should be taught how to read and write as well as simple arithmetic, after which they should be at liberty to cease their education or continue it along congenial . lines: they hjve a right to the key ( to knowledge, but must unlock and open the door for themselves.” ’Twould have been better if he had omitteed that paragrabh. Lots of other people have been thinking along those same lines for some . time, but they keep their theugty* ; fairly well to themselvesC
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Things are getting powerful’ complicated these days. I
Ai Congressman got quoted recently: “In the Ten Commandments there are 297 words, Sn Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address 266 words, but in an OPS order settleing ceiling prices an manually operated foghorns there are 12,962 words-”
The mails to the county newspaper contain volumns on ceiling prices and news items from the Office of Price Stabilization. Information comes in every week as to some
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