Although the teachers were not aware of it, one of the great philosophers of this century, Alfred North Whitehead, was suggesting what was wrong. In an obscure footnote he pointed out that it was appropriate to define education as a process of transmittal of what is known only when the time-span of major cultural change was greater than the life-span of individuals. Under this condition, what people learn in their youth will remain valid and useful for the rest of their lives. But, Whitehead emphasized, “We are living in the first period in human history for which this assumption is false…today this time-span is considerably shorter than that of human life, and accordingly our training must prepare individuals to fact a novelty of conditions.” An attempt is made in Exhibit 3 to portray Whitehead’s concept graphically.