Education for Intercultural Understanding

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9012159
AutoresF S C Northrop (autor de correspondencia)
Año1947
Volumen18
Número4
Páginas171-181
Fecha de publicación1947-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Higher Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-1546 • E-ISSN: 1538-4640
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00221546.1947.11775640
OpenAlexW2326816224
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6

E DUCATION must fit men to understand and solve the inescapable problems of our time. Any consideration of the character of education, therefore, must begin with an analysis of these problems. Even at the cost of becoming repetitious, it must none the less be reiterated that the most pressing problem of our time centers in the atomic bomb. The presence of this bomb in our midst raises the question whether we will have any time to face the other pressing problems of our world. The next war will truly be a war to end all future wars, since it will be a war which ends all possible warriors. Nevertheless, the atomic bomb itself is not the real danger. For the atomic bomb will not hurt civilization unless men direct it to such ends. This means that the problem centers not in scientific technology but in moral philosophy and the social sciences. It is the latter subjects which create social conceptionseconomic, political, religious, and philosophical-necessary to generate the social controls requisite for directing the use of scientific technology to constructive ends. To note this, however, is to become aware that the problem confronting our world is even more serious than the presence of the atomic bomb might indicate. For when we turn to the economic, political, and religious doctrines defining the type of social organization which the different nations, peoples, and cultures in the world deem good, we find not agreement but deep-rooted conflict. The Latin-American conception of the good society differs from the AngloAmerican one; the American conception of appropriate economic and

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