Has an "all-round" education been destroyed by the progress of knowledge?
Ruth Horazek The Futures Company, Chapel Hill
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 The ideal of an "all-round" education is out of date; it has been destroyed by the progress of knowledge.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?
David Rubenstein, Co-founder of the Carlyle group recently noted in a speech, "You shouldn't enter college worried about what you will do when...