The open conspiracy : $b Blue prints for a world revolutionWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Religion
The open conspiracy : $b Blue prints for a world revolution
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Social problems; Sociology; Utopias
Now in each generation the Open Conspiracy must remain a minority
movement of intelligent converts until it can develop its own
reproductive methods. A unified progressive world community demands
its own type of home and training. It needs to have its fundamental
concepts firmly established in as many minds as possible and to guard
its children from the infection of the old racial and national hatreds
and jealousies, old superstitions and bad mental habits, and base
interpretations of life. From its outset the Open Conspiracy will be
setting itself to influence the existing educational machinery, but for
a long time it will find itself confronted in school and college by
powerful religious and political authorities determined to set back the
children at the point or even behind the point from which their parents
made their escape. At best, the liberalism of the state-controlled
schools will be a compromise. During the early phases of its struggle,
therefore, the Open Conspiracy will be obliged to adopt a certain
sectarianism of domestic and social life in the interests of its
children, and it may even in many cases have to consider the grouping
of its families and the establishment of its own schools. In many
modern communities, the English-speaking states, for example, there is
still liberty to establish educational companies, running schools of a
special type. In every country where that right does not exist it has
to be fought for.
There lies a great work for various groups of the Open Conspiracy.
Successful schools would become laboratories of educational methods
and patterns for the state schools. Necessarily for a time, the Open
Conspiracy children would become a social élite, they would begin from
their first conscious moments to think and talk among clear-headed
people speaking distinctly and behaving frankly, and it would be a
waste and loss to put them back for the scholastic stage among their
mentally indistinct and morally muddled contemporaries. A phase when
there will be a special educational system for the Open Conspiracy
is, therefore, clearly indicated. Its children will learn to speak,
draw, think, compute lucidly and subtly, and into their vigorous minds
they will take the broad concepts of history, biology and mechanical
progress, the basis of the new world, naturally and easily. Meanwhile,
those who grow up outside the advancing educational frontier of the
Open Conspiracy will never come under the full influence of its ideas,
or they will get hold of them only after a severe struggle against a
mass of misrepresentations and elaborately instilled prejudices.
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