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The Nation In Arms Is Virtually A Communist State: The People Must Be Paid Wages And Fed And Protected And Regimented Behind The Lines As Much As On The Front. Minds Must Be Kept Loyal And At The Right Pitch Of Hate, So That Successive Drafts Of Fighters Are Accepted Without Murmurings. Letters And Newspapers Must Be Censored While The Propaganda Mill Grinds On. As For Decisions Of Strategy And Overall Command, They Must Please Many Masters: Dissenters In The Cabinet, The Heads Of The Allied States And Public Opinion. Hence Failures Must Be Disguised Or Concealed.

Convince Yourself That You Are Working In Clay, Not Marble, On Paper Not Eternal Bronze: Let That First Sentence Be As Stupid As It Wishes.

When Plugged In, The Least Elaborate Computer Can Be Relied On To Work To The Fullest Extent Of Its Capacity. The Greatest Mind Cannot Be Relied On For The Simplest Thing; Its Variability Is Its Superiority.

It Is Not Clear To Anyone, Least Of All The Practitioners, How Science And Technology In Their Headlong Course Do Or Should Influence Ethics And Law, Education And Government, Art And Social Philosophy, Religion And The Life Of The Affections. Yet Science Is An All-pervasive Energy, For It Is At Once A Mode Of Thought, A Source Of Strong Emotion, And A Faith As Fanatical As Any In History.

The Truth Is, When All Is Said And Done, One Does Not Teach A Subject, One Teaches A Student How To Learn It.