During recent years great improvements have been made in educational methodology, equipment, and curriculums. Increased expenditure of effort and resources has resulted in a veritable explosion of knowledge and in rapid progress in scientific research. This in turn has produced great technological advances, more efficient methods in business and industry, increased productivity, and, in the most advanced countries, a higher material standard of living and increased leisure time.
Mankind have watched with awe the harnessing of atomic energy, thrilled to the conquest of space, and marveled at the instant recall of computerized facts; but, at the same time, it considers with deep concern increased lawlessness and immorality, pollution of the environment, continuing distrust among peoples and nations, and even the threat of annihilation by means of the very technological devices men themselves have invented.
Has education failed? Must technology be more harmful than beneficial? Or is there some way by which it can be saved from misuse and its value turned to humanity's benefit?
