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Human Life, Immortality, Peace, Pondered
By Norman Cousins for Teachers1 Meeting
Friday, June 28. 1957
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
Mr OLIVE STARCHER
Mail Tribune Slaff Writer
Washington. DC, Junp 25
"How much importance do e
attach to human lifo'"
Asking this question, Norman
Cousins, editor of the Saturday
Review, declared toniaht in the
keynote address of the opening
genera! session of the National
Commission on Teacher Educa
tion and Professional Standards,
that the human rare is in dan
ger of "devolution" of retro
gression to lower forms of life.
The distinguished humanitarian
and editor said that hecause
mankind has unleashed through
the hydrogen and atom bombs
a force which he may not be
able to control, and whose ef
fect on the human germ plasm
is yet unknown, the "very na
ture of human life is being
threatened "
Dialogue Used
Abandoning the usual keynote
address. Cousins' views were ex
pressed by way of a "Socratic
dialogue" with Miss Martha
Shull, Portland, president of Na
tional Education association,
servin as the questioner. More
than a thousand teachers, educa
tor nd vi.ttors heard the dia
logue and responded at the close
! with prolonged applause,
i The two opened the dialogue
; by listing some of the major
problems facing the world to
day, and then Cousins declared
: that all there are dwarfed by
the real problem "What about
human beings themselves?"
Cousins, who had himself pre
pared both the question and
answer manuscripts which
enunciated his ideas, said, "The
one thing that appalls me is
that almost no one seems to have
time to think these days. We in
America have everything we
need, except the most important
thing of all time to think and
the habit of thought. We lack
time for the one indispensable
for safety of an individual or a
nation. Thought is the basic
energy in human history. Civili
zation is put together not by ma
chines, but by thought."
Busy Doing Nothing
"The paradox, of course, is
that we are busy doing nothing.
Never before has so much leisure
time been available to so many,
but we have a genius for clut
tering. We have somehow man
aged to persuade ourselves that
we are too busv to think, too
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busv to read, too busy to look
back, too busy to look ahead, too
busy to understand that all our
wealth and all our power are
not enough to safeguard our fu
ture unless there is also a real
understanding of the danger that
threatens .us and how to meet
it."
"We are so busy entertaining
ourselves and increasing the
size and ornamentations of our
personal kingdoms that we have
hardly considered that no age in
history has had as many loose
props under it as our own."
The dialogue then branched
into the idea that very few in
the world today have an concep
tion of the magnitude of the de
structive force inherent in the
atomic and hydrogen bombs, or
that the testing may be releas
ing into the air materials which
mav be capable of "debasing,
crippling or destroying life it
self." Immortality
There was a discussion of the
meaning of immortality, and the
statement that "the pathway to
a realizable immortality is the
idea of a true brotherhood of
man. The fact of human brother
hood exists. It is merely the gen
eral recognition of such a
brotherhood that does not exist."
The moral man was defined as
"One who regards the total well
being of the world, or the lack
of such well-being, as flowing
out of his own integrity and con
science, or the lack of it. He finds
the world in his mirror."
Deciding that man has a re
sponsibility to "the age yet to
be born" the dialogue continued
into the idea that "the crisis of
our time is a crisis in awareness
and knowledge" and the ques
tion of what role the teacher
and education in general must
play.
Outlining his ideas in this
field Cousins said "the most im
portant thing a school can do to
day whether secondary school
or college or professional school
is to convince its students of
its own limitations. The main
task of the school is to make its
students aware that they will
have to be on their own so far
as the most essential part of their
education is concerned. The con
tours of knowledge, both gen
eral and professional, are chang
ing so fast in our time that a
school can consider itself suc
cessful in direct proportion to its
ability to prepare its students for
gaining the larger part of their
education on their own, and for
keeping their intellectual in
ventory current."
Basically, however, the big
gest job of education is to pre
pare the individual to anticipate
the problems of later genera
tions.
Cousins closed by saying "You
are a single cell in a body of
two billion cells; the body is
mankind. You glory in the in
dividuality of self, but your in-
dividuality does not separate you
from your universal self the
oneness of man.
God and Man
"The expansion of knowledge j
makes for an expansion of faith,
and the widening of the horizons !
of mind for a widening of belief.
i our reason nourishes your:
faith, and your faith your rea
son. You are not diminished by j
the growth of knowledge, but by
the denial of it. You cannot af
firm God if you fail to affirm :
man, you deny the oneness 'of
man, you deny the oneness o
God. Therefore affirm both.
Without a belief in human unity
you are hungry and incomplete, j
"You can believe in personal
responsibility. When you enter !
your home you enter with the ,
awareness that your roof can be
only half built, for half your ;
brothers on this earth are home
less. And your table can be only ;
half set, for half the men on this
earth know the emptiness of
want.
"When you think of peace you
can know no peace until the
peace is real."
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