... an enduring
framework for human progress, not a stop - gap solution, but a long - term strategy that gives the world confidence in a low - carbon future.
The Rationalist (the initial capital is Oakeshott's, who as Himmelfarb observed suggestively spelled «conservative» with a lowercase c) is both skeptical and optimistic: skeptical that there is anything he can not master and optimistic about the
possibilities for human progress.
In his book Building Bridges delineating the history of UCEA, Jack Culbertson notes that UCEA was influenced at its beginnings by the fundamental belief that schools and universities must work together to improve educational leadership preparation and that «leadership was a
prerequisite for human progress» (p. 24).
Bruce Babbitt echoed similar thoughts, stating that «Development should enlarge the
possibilities for human progress, creativity, and quality of life, which it can not accomplish by continually eroding the beauty and productivity of the natural world.»
For human progress, this is fantastic.