going positions would answer with, "We have to choose. We cannot afford both at once!" While the discussion is carried on, time goes by, and neither position is implemented.
(8) Dr. Kilpatrick, in his Philosophy of Education, points out that wars have positively indicated that we live in one world. Probably, I guess, Ameriean schools are taking measures to prepare for living in one world, since the United States shares an incontestable leadership with the U.S.S.R. Now then, is the active-practical educational orientation in America able to achieve this aim? And even more, .can an education:al structure do something to make people understand people, to understand o~er's problems? Can schools do this effectively, or is it only an assumption or wishful thinking? Can schools really help to make the world be one, as wars have temporarily?
I'd like to think they can, especially when I wonder whether Cuba's problem could be ,but a big misunderstanding. Many times, when we experience a situation such as the one in Changuito's story where each party interprets its question or answers from differing viewpoints resulting in questions and answers that don't match the other's ideas, it would be so easy to question and delve into the other's reasons and meanings.
Thank you, Professor Kilpatrick. We wish you a very happy birthday in the name of every Latin American person concerned with educational problems.