Education and the Present World Order

T HE importance of education in the development of nations is a wellrecognized fact. To be sure, the character and the major objectives of the government may differ from one nation to another. The educational process may be more informal than formal, and it may be carried on under various auspices and intermingled with religious and cultural customs. There is, however, not a single nation in the modern world, no matter what form its government, that is not putting increasing emphasis on the function of education as the basis for its support. In the totalitarian nations, as illustrated in Nazi Germany and presentday Soviet Russia, the spread of educational advantages and the relating of them to industrial and agricultural life on the one hand and to recreation on the other served in Germany and now serves in Soviet Russia as one of the most popular bases on which to establish the totalitarian system of government. In other words, widespread education is today regarded by centralized governments as being as necessary to their preservation and strength as it has long been known to be to the democracies

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