The educated person
needs to bring knowledge to bear on the present, not to mention the molding of
the future.
In his 1943 novel, published in English as Magister Ludi (1949), Hermann Hesse
anticipated the sort of world humanist want – and its failure. The book depicts a brotherhood of
intellectuals, artists, and humanists who live a life of splendid isolation,
dedicated to the Great Tradition, its wisdom and its beauty. But the hero, the most accomplished master of
the Brotherhood, decides in the end to return to the polluted, vulgar,
turbulent, strife-torn, money-grubbing reality – for his values are only fool’s
gold unless they have relevance to the world.
Post-capitalist society needs the educated person even more
than any earlier society did, and access to the great heritage of the past will
have to be an essential element. But
liberal education must enable the person to understand reality and master it.
ACTION POINT: Read a
book on politics, history, or anything that interests you. What did you learn? How can you put that knowledge to work?
Post-Capitalist Society
Quoted from The Daily Drucker, page 43
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