In the extracts (from C.P. Snow’s The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution) that I’m going to analyze, the writer makes some reflections about the, just, two opposite visions that he takes into consideration (scientifists and non-scientists also defined as ‘traditional’).
He say that “the feelings of one pole” becomes the anti-feelings of the other”: meaning that there could never be a dialogue between the two parts.
In addition to this, he also thinks that “the emergence of the scientific culture, which manages the western world” produced the “diminished” relevance of the traditional culture.
But, at the same time, “there is a moral component right in the grain of science itself”: C.P. Snow wants to confirme the real interest science has about psychological, moral or social life.
On the othere side Snow criticize most non-scientists, that, in his opinion, have no conception about the scientific edifice of physical world: as a matter of fact, they do not want not to understand it or, if they want, they can’t. In conclusion, Snow thinks that there is a unique possible solution for such difficult and deep-rooted problem: re-thinking our education; the school system is too much specialised into different sectors.
But for Snow, the other problem is that, in England, people are resigned about the possible changing of the school system, and, in my opinion, not only in England…