““More than twenty years ago Sir Charles Snow lamented the sharp division between “The Two Cultures,” the literary/artistic and the scientific. My observations over the past decades, the evidence of current events, and the research and analysis that went into this volume all confirm that Snow was perceptive in identifying the problem, and entirely right to be very concerned about it. For a time, until the 1960s, a successful beginning was made toward raising a generation of humanists with a good grounding in the sciences, and scientists with significant basic knowledge in the humanities. Unfortunately, that movement toward education for “literacy” in both of the two cultures came to a halt with the ferment of unrest and the resulting lowering of standards and of course requirements that shook the universities at the end of the 1960s. Only now, more than a decade later, is there a significant movement toward higher standards and the education of a generation literate in both of the two cultures.””
