Much Of The Material Presented In Schools

I Align Myself With Almost All Researchers In Assuming That Anything We Do Is A Composite Of Whatever Genetic Limitations Were Given To Us By Our Parents And Whatever Kinds Of Environmental Opportunities Are Available.

Hitler Didn't Travel. Stalin Didn't Travel. Saddam Hussein Never Traveled. They Didn't Want To Have Their Orthodoxy Challenged.

My Belief In Why America Has Been Doing So Well Up To Now Is That We Have Been Propelled By Our Immigrants And Our Encouragement Of Technical Innovation And, Indeed, Creativity Across The Board.

In Roughly The Last Century, Important Experiments Have Been Launched By Such Charismatic Educators As Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner, Shinichi Suzuki, John Dewey, And A. S. Neil. These Approaches Have Enjoyed Considerable Success[...] Yet They Have Had Relatively Little Impact On The Mainstream Of Education Throughout The Contemporary World.

Perhaps, Indeed, There Are No Truly Universal Ethics: Or To Put It More Precisely, The Ways In Which Ethical Principles Are Interpreted Will Inevitably Differ Across Cultures And Eras. Yet, These Differences Arise Chiefly At The Margins. All Known Societies Embrace The Virtues Of Truthfulness, Integrity, Loyalty, Fairness; None Explicitly Endorse Falsehood, Dishonesty, Disloyalty, Gross Inequity. (five Minds For The Future, P136)