Word: utopias
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...primitive man conceived in images, that his images were ideas; that he ascribed words to these ideas. And now, in this technological century, the word has grown further from the idea, until they have separated, and the word is all. The shattered images lie in a pile, along with utopia and dreams...
...educators has always been the opportunity to shape the world through its future leaders and citizens. But education also carries with it a responsibility to prepare a child to live in and accept, to some extent, the world as he finds it. The secondary boarding school is a potential utopia as well as a vital part of our formal educational system. These two aspects are at times opposed to one another...
...Need for Utopia...
...stated and much-trumpeted hope of the Enlightenment and three centuries of liberal thought that education was the key to Utopia. As one by one the other panaceas have proved to be illusions--from Marxian economics to social engineering, our high school system should not midwife despair of ever reaching such a goal.Fred Safier '60 received nation-wide publicity when he entered Harvard at the age of twelve. His method of escaping the usual secondary school curriculum is not open to most of the nation's gifted...
...obviously absurd to say that the United States has reached Utopia, that it has no further need for development. The overcrowded schools, the urban slums, the obsolescent highways, and the inadequate health facilities throughout the nation give a different picture. But correction of these conditions is generally beyond the scope or daring of private enterprise. It is not, however, outside the realm of government concern, Presidents Eisenhower and Hoover to the contrary notwithstanding...