Study How A Society Uses Its Land,

Our Task - And The Task Of All Education - Is To Understand The Present World, The World In Which We Live And Make Our Choices.

The Heart Of The Matter, As I See It, Is The Stark Fact That World Poverty Is Primarily A Problem Of Two Million Villages, And Thus A Problem Of Two Thousand Million Villagers.

If, However, Economic Ambitions Are Good Servants, They Are Bad Masters

After All, For Mankind As A Whole There Are No Exports. We Did Not Start Developing By Obtaining Foreign Exchange From Mars Or The Moon. Mankind Is A Closed Society.

Economic Policies Absorb Almost The Entire Attention Of Government, And At The Same Time Become Ever More Impotent. The Simplest Things, Which Only Fifty Years Ago One Could Do Without Difficulty, Cannot Get Done Any More. The Richer A Society, The More Impossible It Become To Do Worthwhile Things Without Immediate Payoff.