Thinking Our Way Out
"I think that the great crisis of the present time is political and economic rather than scientific. I’m not referring to the military problem in front of us, but to the future of combined communities. The saving of this future can only come through real hard thinking and the testing out of different ideas, however unconventional. This is a problem for the community as a whole, and the community should demand that its statesmen and civil servants and university men should set about finding the way out. By that I do not mean that someone should think of an idea and compel the rest of us to accept it. I prefer the old university method of debate and experiment, trying to see every side of a question, and trying out a tentative conclusion in public. But then I am a university man and the son of a university man, and perhaps I am academic after all."-(Professor F. L. W. Wood, talking from 2YA on "The University in Daily Life,’ on May 13)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 49, 31 May 1940, Page 10
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176Thinking Our Way Out New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 49, 31 May 1940, Page 10
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