We think those gropings betray hungers which, however inarticulate, are neverthe-
less eloquent in proclaiming the need of certain vitamins in the lives of men.

We think there are Life Needs which are eternally imperative, and which still
remain unsatisfied. And to our way of thinking, those needs make definite demands
upon Education as the process whereby society purposes to prepare people for the
business, or if one prefers, for the art of living.

The first necd is a rather hazy one, in general terms. But we think it is
basic. We think it is the understructure bencath almost every other need and
particularly basic to treating the individual as a whole unit. Briefly, that
is the need of better integrating an emotional with our intellectual culture.
Let's see whether we can make that clear.

We think humanity still suffers from an ailment which might be called a
sort of secular-spiritual Beri-beri. As you know, that is a disease caused by
unbalanced diet. It comes to people subsisting mainly on rice, but rice which
has been polished. Rice naturally is darker; polishing makes it colorless. It
removes the life germ and robs it of its vitamine content. Beri-beri is a
disease of hunger unsatisfied. It is a nervous irritation which causes pain,
general debility, emaciation, We think our social Beri-beri is kin to this
physical ailment. We believe that subsisting exclusively on an intellectual
diet, divested by polishing of much of the color and of the life germ of emotional
content, contributes to a loss in emotional discipline and cultivation. It only
does half the job. When one considers that impulse rather than reason still
continues to make most of our decisions for us, isntt one safe in saying that
it even does less than half of its job?

It is true that you educators talk about motivation. But we think you

conceive it more as intellectual concept than as emotional experience. Stephen

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