From the first day we are told in words we can handle what has come to be prized as the foundation of community and culture. Though the teacher may call these first lessons 'simple rules,' they are in fact the distillation of all the hard-won, field-tested working standards of the human enterprise.

It's hard to explain the cost and consequences of environmental pollution and destruction to a six year old. But we are paying a desperate price even now becau…

Knowledge is meaningful only if it is reflected in action. The human race has found out the hard way that we are what we do, not just what we think. This is tr…

A six-year-old will not understand that 'By and large it has been demonstrated that violence is counterproductive to the constructive interaction of persons an…

What we learn in kindergarten comes up again and again in our lives as long as we live. In far more complex, polysyllabic forms, to be sure. In lectures, encyc…

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have r…

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.