ON THE RIGHT: the screening of

GR vegetable garden

Yet we cannot deny the indictment that we seek a solution for practically every problem of life in quantitative terms; and we are not fully aware of the limits of this approach. The constant multiplication of our high school and college enrollments has not had the effect of making us the most "intelligent" nation, whether we measure intelligence in terms of social wisdom, aesthetic discrimi- nation, spiritual serenity or any other basic human achievement. It may have made us technically the most proficient nation, thereby proving that technical efficiency is more easily achieved in purely quantitative terms than any other value of culture.

Reinhold Niebuhr: The irony of American history, 1952.

 2009-10-04 

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