People think the
world should change. People seem to imagine that the world will
change by some movement that grows over time into a large force by
virtue of its numbers and wins over the whole of humanity by its
sway. The movement, we think, will probably begin in the mind of some
genius, a scholar. We support higher education in the hope one will
be found in that arena. There is little if any evidence that schools
ever produce change. On the contrary, they seem to manufacture
sameness.
When the world does
change, it may come instantaneously through the changing of a single
human being in a change so profound it changes everybody else at
once. Actually, it will almost certainly come that way because, as
every one knows, a system cannot change from the inside. Anything
resembling change from within a manmade system has to be just more
of the same system. Systems thought up are not alive and do not
evolve. Life evolves. Join it.