Aiming At Giving Our Kids A Competitive

Some Parents Expend Great Efforts To Get Their Kids Into The Right Nursery School Or The Right Preschool, With The Thought That That Will Set Them On The Path To Success, To Competitive Success Especially.

Very Often When We Aim At The Best, Or What We May Think Is The Best For Our Children, We Aim Really At Lesser Things, Such As Getting Into A Certain College.

The Relief Of Suffering Is A Great Good. The Curing Of Illness And Disease - These Are Great Human Goods. This Is The Mission Of Medicine.

Democracy Does Not Require Perfect Equality, But It Does Require That Citizens Share In A Common Life.

I Think Part Of Being A Parent, To Love One's Child, Is To Accept Them As They Come - Not To See Them As Instruments Of Our Ambition Or As Creatures To Be Molded, As If They Were Themselves Commodities.