John Dewey's "Keep 'Em Busy, Charlie!"

I attend a current events class at the Osher Lifelong Learning Center of the University of Nevada, Reno.  This past week we got thinking about the significance of the phenomenon of a rising educated populace all around the world; and how the common man in countries once deemed "primitive" is demanding, more and more, a piece of the action and a share of the world's goodies.

What's the alternative?  Suppose the demands of the commoner aren't heeded.  We envisioned unrest, class warfare, even war with guns and missiles deployed. 

In any case, the point to human existence, if there is one, is to be kept busy doing what man's developed potentials enable him to do.  That point was hammered home by the American philosopher John Dewey, who studied the common man seriously.

I think since there's so many educated persons the world over; and the numbers are growing exponentially, they clearly need to be kept busy doing the things they are trained to do.  Nations of the world through such organizations as G20 must find the wherewithal to enable the citizens of the world to interact with respect to their training--to prevent worldwide holocaust, caused by the discontent of an educated populace aimlessly shunted about.