The World Encyclopedia: Has an "all-round" education been destroyed by the progress of knowledge?
Georgia Lindsay JWT, Singapore
"The time when it was possible to be universally well-informed is past. The ideal of an 'all-round' education is out of date; it has been destroyed by the progress of knowledge". Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays 1928.
Knowledge has progressed still further since 1928; and so has technology. Was Russell right then; and is he now?
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