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At the time of our America’s founding: The idea that democracy would fail without an educated citizenry was widely understood.
Learning to have the temperament and self-discipline to sacrifice one’s own needs for the common good was the founding principle behind the experiment, which is democracy, or self-government.
Today, we are no longer a society of learners. We do not consider life long learning as a cultural value. We no longer consider educating ourselves as the essential ingredient or secret sauce to our success as a democracy of citizens.
Due to our not reading and de-valuing learning, we have grown to distrust the schools that educate our children.
If we do not value education we will forever be fighting, because we will lack the capacity to know or do anything differently. The more we devalue learning the more misunderstanding, dis-trust, war and hate, we will have.
In any culture, since the beginning of time, which has not valued the general education of its citizenry we see regression to primitive behaviors. The savage few rule over the many. Today we are seeing how our move away from intellectualism and humility, to masculinity and arrogance, is dominating our society - and has torn us apart.
Reading the words of other people is the only way to appreciate the remarkable thinking ability of our fellow man - by not reading, we are losing trust in our fellow man.
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