It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creatingfuture dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.

Bertrand Russell (1872 CE-1970 CE), Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell OM FRS was a British philosopher. As an academic, he worked in philosophy, mathematics, and logic.