"In a perceptive and penetrating essay devoted to a definition of the modern world as he sees it, the world-renowned inventor of the Geodesic dome discusses the place of education in that world. In applying his dymaxion principles to educational planning Mr. Fuller makes a strong case for technological aids in teaching and for comprehensive planning of campuses of the future." [jacket blurb, US pbk, fifth printing, November 1968]

"If you were an invisible world master of the water-ocean earth you had to maintain the capability to create and run the top world navies--you had to have physical control of the biggest patterns. No matter what else we may say of these men today, they were magnificently imaginative big-scale operators. They had taken all that science had learned about energy and put it into their navies, faster, further, more accurately hitting power in order to keep in supreme command of physical affairs of mankind. Now, if you were world master, you would not be at all worried about being displaced by a dull one. You would only be apprehensive of and on guard against the bright ones. There is the old strategy of 'divide and conquer'. The old masters, then, in order to prevent themselves from being displaced from their great ocean mastery deliberately went to work taking the young, bright ones as they came along, and divided them up anticipatorily into non-self-integratable specializations , which made them completely innocuous as challengers to comprehensive grand strategy thinking and practical affairs integration. The bright ones thus became subject to integration of their high potential only at the masters' command. That was the key to the world pattern mastery up to World War I, when general literacy of the rising world democracies posed threats to the old masters' all but impregnable sinecure." --R.Buckminster Fuller (from the US pbk, page 59).

"Education Automation can be read with interest and pleasure by anyone concerned with higher education." -- (in the Times Literary Supplement ).

"This is education in defense against a world conspiracy by the 'old masters'. Learn something!" --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1998).

Recommended.