Having spent a good many years as a teacher, I

see clearly that education is of critical impor-

tance in the rapidly changing conditions in

which the world s peoples now live. The task of

education is to acquaint people, especially

young people, with the total tradition of human

thought and experience. Today, however, it is

especially important that our minds remain un-

cluttered and free of the laborious memorization

of thousands of facts and figures. Students must

keep their minds clear and agile, for their task is

to wrestle with the evolving concepts to which

all the recently gathered knowledge--generated

by new critical insights--is inevitably leading.

The valuable facts of the past, accumulated over

thousands of years, must be preserved, however,

as the basis for new concepts.