The Future of Man—Evolutionary Aspects 
In particular, education in the next phase should pay a great 
deal of attention to non-verbal education of all sorts. It should 
help children to explore the possibilities of their own bodies, of 
perception, of imagination, of creative activity, of the enjoy- 
ment of beauty and art. Though art in the broad sense is one 
of the major functions of man, the arts are lamentably neglected 
in our educational system, especially in its higher reaches. 
Man is the most variable of all organisms, and the new 
education must take full account of this basic fact. Human 
variety is a source of strength to society, and we must encourage 
it and not try to impose uniformity. The educational system 
should take Roger Williams’ dictum Free but Unequal as its 
motto, and make Varied Excellence its aim. 
At the moment we are encouraging verbalizers and discourag- 
ing visualizers, and also encouraging quick and docile learning 
and discouraging imagination and creativity. We need an 
Education Council to initiate research into this and every other 
aspect of the educational process. 
One fundamental aim of education should be to help child- 
ren to develop an integrated personality. For this to be success- 
ful, the educational profession will have to take full account of 
modern psychology and psychiatry, and to do a great deal of 
research on the best methods of enabling children to by-pass or 
transcend conflict and to arrive at a better integration of their 
inner selves. 
Education should also help to transform cultural tradition. 
It can do this if the basic idea-system which it puts before 
growing minds is an evolutionary one, in which the ideas of 
possible improvement and the vast extent of unrealized possi- 
bility are implicitly and explicitly stressed. If it provides boys 
and girls with opportunities of fulfilment during their school 
career, this will make them protagonists of a real fulfilment 
society in the future. In such ways, education could become an 
efficient agency of further human evolution. 
I would have liked to say something about the situation in 
other organs of evolving man—about art as simultaneously 
creating and interpreting complexity and variety in ways 
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