The Art of Study: The Sorbonne Method

This book is based on my lectures given in 1945. At that time many of my ideas about education appeared unorthodox and revolutionary. By now, most of these ideas have been generally accepted; yet it remains for them to be taken to heart by a civilization which is intoxicated by the superficial glitter of technological achievements. There is no doubt that the well-being of mankind in the present, as the fate of the human race in the future, depends more on Education than on anything else. As education is the transmission of ageless accumulated values of a long succession of previous generations, it is becoming more and more complex and, unfortunately, more and more technological.