9. Search for America - Our Problems in Education with Mark Van Doren and William Ernest Hocking

9. Education - Huston Smith interviews Professor Mark Van Doren Pulitzer Prize winning poet and educate are and Dr. William Ernest Hocking professor emeritus that philosophy at Harvard University on education in America. How does it compare with education in other countries? What kind of education do we want? Who do we want to educate? Everybody? For how long? In this series, the inquiry turns from descriptive to normative values, from the 'is' to the ‘ought'. Focusing on fifteen crucial problems confronting the American people, from foreign policy decisions to matters of personal faith, it asks: What values should guide us toward the solution of these problems? Featured Personality: Huston Smith, a pioneer in Educational Television, Huston Smith is known to the television public for his two previous series: The Religions of Man and Science and Human Responsibility. For eleven years Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, he moved in 1959 to become the first Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, since the early days of that institution. An authority in comparative philosophy, Dr. Smith is the author of The Religions of Man and The Purposes of Higher Education.