Education and the Study of Man
Education and the Study of Man
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教育与人的研究
DOI：
10.1017/s0003598x00018044
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发表时间：
1943
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影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
G. Clark
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作者：
G. Clark
如今，教育作为战后规划的一个主题已成为每个人的话题。 E 公众利益从未如此高涨。然而，即使现在人们是否充分认识到其重要性，仍值得怀疑。除了赢得战争之外，没有什么比启蒙之战更重要的了，因为如果这场战争失败了，“胜利”将是徒劳的，我们都可能准备迎接比现在更可怕的磨难，因为这是在更大的政治和军事力量的聚集中进行的。整个历史见证了权力的腐败、少数人为夺取多数人的利益而进行的斗争、人民的无知及其对自身造成的致命后果。今天，在很大程度上要归功于普通人的英雄主义，无论是被轰炸的城市的公民、斯大林格勒的保卫者、中国的农民、被压迫的欧洲居民还是解放力量的成员，我们都站在了一个新世界的门槛上：我们是否跨过门槛，还是被推回导致另一场大屠杀的黑暗通道，主要取决于我们对教育的态度，取决于在未来几年中采取的步骤，使世界各地的普通人认识到他的继承权世界公民并意识到自己有能力塑造自己的命运。最重要的是需要一种压倒一切的人类团结意识，这种团结意识只能来自共同起源的意识。分裂时，我们会成为部落领袖的牺牲品；团结起来，我们或许还能过上基本正派的生活。
Ducation as a subject for post-war planning is on everyone’s lips today. E Public interest has never been higher. Yet it may be doubted whether even now the full measure of its importance is realized. Next to winning the war, nothing is of greater moment than the battle for enlightenment, for if this is lost the ‘victory’ will be vain and we may all prepare for an ordeal more terrible than the present, because fought out among still larger aggregations of political and military power. The whole of history bears witness to the corruption of power, the struggles of the few for spoil of the many, the ignorance of the peoples and its lethal consequences to themselves. Today, thanks for the most part to the heroism of the common man, whether citizen of a bombed city, defender of Stalingrad, peasant of China, inhabitant of oppressed Europe or member of the forces of liberation, we stand on the threshold of what could be a new world: whether we cross that threshold or are elbowed back into the dark passage that leads to another holocaust, depends primarily on our attitude to education, on the steps taken during the next few years to bring to the common man everywhere a realization of his inheritance as a citizen of the world and an awareness of his power to mould his own destiny. What is needed above all is an overriding sense of human solidarity such as can come only from consciousness of common origins. Divided we fall victims to tribal leaders: united we may yet move forward to a life of elementary decency.