Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
From Margaret Mead
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
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