Note on Philosophy of Teaching Arithmetic
Howard F. Fehr · The Arithmetic Teacher · 1956
More and more the only services which human beings can offer to society and which society will need will be intellectual. Just as in the last 100 years mechanical skill superseded and to a great extent outmoded manual labor, in the next few years the automatic machine will supersede and to a great extent outmode mechanical skill (not entirely but mechanical skill will be cheap, comparatively to brain power). The age of automatons, for their development, construction, and maintenance, demands from society greater brain power.