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Carnegie is currently scouting all kinds of educational problems that other givers are loath to touch. It is deep in "continuing education" for everyone from frustrated housewives to jobless young Negroes. By financing research in programmed learning, it hopes to set standards in a wildly burgeoning field. And it enthusiastically supports Harvard Psychologist Jerome Bruner's Center for Cognitive Studies, a field that Gardner hopes will discover the secrets of the human learning process and give important insights into mental disorders.
In its next 50 years, Carnegie intends to go on finding bad problems and good men, shifting its fire where needed. "Conditions upon the erth inevitably change," wrote Andrew Carnegie in his favorite simplified spelling. "I giv my trustees full authority to change policy or causes . . . They shall best conform to my wishes by using their own judgment."