Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Bertrand Russell's Useless Knowledge

"The world at present is full of angry self-centred groups, each incapable of viewing human life as a whole, each willing to destroy civilization rather than yield an inch. To this narrowness no amount of technical instruction will provide an antidote. The antidote, in so far as it is a matter of individual psychology, is to be found in history, biology, astronomy, and all those studies which, without destroying self-respect, enable the individual to see himself in his proper perspective. "

http://www.scribd.com/doc/145593733/Bertrand-Russell-Useless-Knowledge