Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. Margaret Mead

Believing in the essential unity of humanity doesn't mean you have to think everyone is or should be the same. To be human is to reason, to contend, and to relate to fellow human beings. Without a diversity of views to encounter and a diversity of people to engage with, we are lessened as individuals.

The story belongs not to any tribe, but to all of humanity, for it requires only the convictions that life is better than death, health is better than sickness, abundance is better than want, freedom is better than coercion, happiness is better than suffering, and knowledge is better than superstition and ignorance. Steven Pinker

We cannot hope to build a better world without improving the lives of all individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share general responsibility for all humanity. We each must do what we can, how ever little.

Love is wise. Hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other. We have to learn to put up with the fact that some people may say things we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we … Continue reading Love Is Wise