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The Liberal Arts in Scientific-Technological Curricula

North Carolina State College, Raleigh

ABSTRACT

The discussion today—Education for What? it might be called—is a very timely one. At no time, at least during my lifetime, have the American people been so aroused about education generally as they are in these post-satellite days. There has been general concern about what we really are doing in our schools and universities; there has been some hysteria, particularly in Washington circles. There has been much talk about science and the intellectual cold war and what must be done to meet these new challenges to our world leadership. These are called days of crisis; there are many prophets crying in the wilderness, though we may be confused as to which prophets we should follow.

We must recognize early, however, that these are not entirely new and different situations we face. Every age has considered itself to be an era of crisis and danger.