Progress Is More Plausibly Judged By The

It Seems To Me To Be Kind Of Inescapable That One Has To Be Interested In The Issue Of Gender And Gender Equality. I Don’t Really Expect Any Credit For Going In That Direction. It’s The Only Natural Direction To Go In. Why Is It That Some People Don’t See That As So Patently Obvious As It Should Be?

If Jobs Are Important, Education Is Important.

Sometimes One Makes A Distinction Between Urgency And Importance. And While Disasters Are Urgent, The Basically Most Important Thing Is Education. And That's What Gives It Ultimately Urgency Too, Because Unless You Do It Now, This Important Thing Gets Again And Again Postponed.

But Once We Recognize That Many Ideas That Are Taken To Be Quintessentially Western Have Also Flourished In Other Civilizations, We Also See That These Ideas Are Not As Culture-specific As Is Sometimes Claimed. We Need Not Begin With Pessimism, At Least On This Ground, About The Prospects Of Reasoned Humanism In The World.

The Fact That Schools Can Actually Be A Major Factor In Cementing The World Is A Factor That's Worth Considering, The Fact That We All Have A Shared Human Identity In Addition To Many Other Identities.