I'd like the United States to become what it was always meant to be, which is a secular nation - more publicly committed to reason, to improving understanding, and promoting education.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a better place, then at or very near the top would be its commitment to universal education.
I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.
Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.
Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.
I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.
I would like to make it so that education was a right, and not a privilege.
I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.
I like coming to the United States because the United States played an important role in my life.
I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.