More of the Same Won’t Help
The guided uproar about the training of scientists and technologists that is now sweeping the country is based upon arguments which at first sight have a certain simple plausibility: major premise, the Soviets have apparently made an impressive breakthrough on an important technological front; minor premise, the Soviets are training x -thousand more scientists and technologists per year than we are; conclusion, to meet the Soviet threat we must train y-thousand more scientists and technologists than we are now training. Therefore, the way to save the country is to direct our entire educational system toward the production of scientists and technologists.
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