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HOWAMBASS
.ISUNIQUE
by
Herbert W. Armstrong
Here the founder and chance/lor of Ambassador College provides a frank,
straightforward explanation of its basic policy.
BASSAOOR COLLEGE is rooted toan educa–
ional policy and a philosophic approach
which permeates the institution.
Today we live
in
a different world. Frightening
changes have occurred. The world went along on a
comparatively even keel from the dawn of history
until the 19th and 20th centuries. Suddenly
knowledge increased. Nearly all modero inven–
tions have appeared during the past 150 years.
In the brief span of a lifetime the world has
passed with accelerating speed through the age of
invention, the machine age, the age of science and
technology, the nuclear age, and now, the space
age. The sudden acceleration in scientific develop–
ment is evidenced by the astounding fact that 90
percent of all scientists who ever lived are living
today.
And wíth these developments has emerged a
new age in education. Today's world is what its
lcaders have made it, and these leaders are the
product of this world's education. But what kind
of world has this education produced?
A
Progressive
World?
lt
appears
to be a progressive world, suddenly
newly enlightened and fantastically advanced.
lt
has become a modero world, producing awe–
inspiring inventions, labor-saving devices, dazzling
luxuries undreamed of a s ingle century ago. Today
June1July 1980
there is instantaneous communícation, worldwide.
We Hy around the world in two days, a nd orbitthe
earth in minutes. The miracles of radio, television,
hi-fi s tereo sound reproduction, and cinerama
entertain an amusement-hungry world. Assembly–
line mass machine productíon has made available
a myriad of exciting new devices, and simulta–
neously increased incomes and shortened work
hours, thus providing both the leisure and the
purchasing power for the masses to enjoy all these
new luxuries.
A fascinated, entranced world has looked ahead
to the magic dream-world push-button Century
21, when human labor would be all but abolished·,
with idleness, ease and luxury enjoyed by all–
seemingly breathtaking PROGRESS!
So it seems. But there is the other side of the
coin, and it's high time wc AWAKE from the trance
and take a hard look at it.
True progress is not measured by the false
yardstick of gadgetry, mechanical devices, and the
fatal concept that labor is a curse and idleness is a
blessing. Science, industry, and modero educatíon
have concentrated on developing the machine
while degenerating the man!
Education- and the world of its creation- has
lost all knowledge of the PURPOSE a nd true
meaning of life.
It
has lost all sense of true values,
while blindly pursuíng the false. Education has
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