022.What Shall We Educate For?

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What Shall We Educate For? By Bertrand Russell in his Education and the Good Life, as reprinted in Walter Lippmann and Allan Nevins: A Modern Reader, Boston,D. C. Heath and Company,1936, pp. 473-477.
Bertrand Russell1872-1970,Later Earl Russell,English journalist,public speaker,and political thinker.After 1918 he lectured at Peking University. While traveling,lecturing,and studying the civilizations of Soviet Russia,China,the United States, and the Europe,he has hammered out in detail his view of the future of mankind-lucidly expressed in Proposed Roads to Freedom, Education and the Good Life, and The Prospects of Industrial Civilization. He believes that this new civilization may easily be created if mankind will but establish three bases for it:a more equal distribution of goods; second,the abolition of war;third,the acceptance of a stationary or but slowly rising level of population.