What is called elementary education throughout the world does not in fact educate, because it does not properly inform. It tyrannizes here and yields to tyranny there. The uninstructed public intelligence of our community is feeble and convulsive. A general ignorance - even in respectable quarters - of some of the most elementary realities of the political and social life of the world is, I believe, mainly accountable for much of the discomfort and menace of our times. I have been keenly interested for a number of years, and particularly since the War, in public thought and public reactions, in what people know and think and what they are ready to believe impresses me as remarkably poor stuff. Presidential Address to the Educational Science Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, September 12th, 1937 (pp.
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