The crisis, I think, has moved to high school: I'm depressed by the endless emphasis on science and math, as if the humanities were worthless.
Science The Endless Frontier, written by President Truman's science advisor Vannevar Bush, remains a 'constitution' for the U.S. science community a seminal report, underpinned by principles which the federal government must respect in order to improve and expand our understanding of the natural and physical world.
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Written for Roosevelt but delivered to President Harry S. Truman in July 1945, Science: The Endless Frontier was Bush's blueprint for organizing government support of university-based research.
With the grandiose title "Science, The Endless Frontier", Bush (no relation to the current president) laid out a vision for government-funded science and engineering that would unite academia, industry and (this being wartime) the armed forces.
Among others, see the Vannevar Bush report "Science, The Endless Frontier".
Ehlers' charge was to write a sequel to Science: The Endless Frontier, the classic 1945 report by engineer Vannevar Bush that has guided U.S. science policy for decades.
For more than six decades many countries sought to implement their own version of Vannevar Bush's "endless frontier" in which science would not only provide solutions to health problems but enhance wealth and prosperity[34].
On the other hand, Vannevar Bush's report, Science, The Endless Frontier, inadvertently produced a nearly opposite result: a system that lodges control of the supply of new scientists outside of the profession and contains incentives that favor ever-increasing numbers.
In Science, The Endless Frontier, science historian Daniel Kevles later wrote, Bush "insisted upon the principle of Federal patronage for the advancement of knowledge in the United States, a departure that came to govern Federal science policy after World War II".
