R. Buckminster Fuller on Education

by R. Buckminster Fuller, Peter H. Wagschal (Editor), Robert D. Kahn (Editor)

Ten lectures and essays spanning the period from 1961 to 1978 contain explicit statements by Fuller on education and reflect his concern that education assist minds to function with a minimum of blockage and wasted motion

Genres: Education

192 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1979

About the author

Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor.

Fuller published more than 30 books, coining or popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetic. He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres.

Buckminster Fuller was the second president of Mensa from 1974 to 1983.

Reviews

[tugce · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have been digging Fuller's work for some time now, I have no idea why, his observations are on point and very forward-thinking guy.

This particular collection (more so than even the monumental Critical Path) resonated deeply with me. It's a journey I'm very much willing to continue.

[Kumari de Silva · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am not sure why the description of this book is in Czech when the edition is described as in English. I read it in paperback, in English. The book is a collection of lectures. Mostly I agree with with Fuller on his ideas for education although of course his language is kind of gendered and old fashioned to modern ears. I don't think is a book you need to rush out and read if you work in education because there are probably more recent books that tout the same ideas. Read it only if you're kind of curious, as I was, about what Fuller was like as a person. It's his own voice. I bet he would have been an interesting professor to have if you were a young man in the 60s, I'm not sure he would have been much help to you if you were a woman. I say that not because anything he says is particularly hostile to women, it's not, it's just that all his work is about "he" this and "he" that as if there were only one gender in the world. A quick trip to the internet reveals he had an aunt who was an early feminist. I wouldn't have guessed it from this set of lectures.