George F. Kneller is a capable philosopher, with a particular interest in the bearing of anthropology upon education. Both by training and personal inclination he is uncomfortable in the presence of untidy formulations and innvalid reasoning. It was most fitting, therefore, that he be invited to respond to R. Freeman Butts' paper, “Civilization-Building and the Modernization Process: A Framework for the Reinterpretation of the History of Educatoin” (H.E.Q., Summer 1967).