The Moral Vision
Teaching the Teachers
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America is seeking its technical assistance in many
of its important military departments. The students
are now teaching their teachers. A newspaper
correspondent reports: “Now the flow is out instead
of in.” (
The Hindustan Times,
June 11, 1981)
Japan willingly submitted to industrial tutelage for
20 years and, as a result, has attained the position of
industrial dominance that it occupies today. If it
had chosen not to recognise the supremacy of
others at that crucial point in its development, and
had felt too proud to go to them for help, it could
never have had such resounding successes.
All too often, we have to lose in order to gain. We
have to resign ourselves to our lowly position until
we can work ourselves up to more satisfactory
heights. Those who recognige this necessity as one
of the facts of life will have a better chance of
succeeding in this world than those who expect to
be able to climb straight to the top without first
having accepted a position of humility, or who
persist in blaming others for their failures. Patience,
fortitude and tenacity are the virtues which will see
