The kind of motivational speech that is often used in praising school and after-school programs for children of all ages often trips over its own hyperbole. This is the more true, the posher the context. On Sunday, I was at the local community center, and there was an advertisement for a girl's school, with some such line as "for tomorrow's women ( Read more... )

Executive Summary:
Ancient spiritual writings do not talk about the categories that make up a modern mindset because these are not their categoroes. However, this omission may explain their appeal: For some modern people, the silence regarding these categories is interpreted as an overcoming of these categories.

A somewhat more detailed Exposition:
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I was very impressed this weekend when reading on the income-based school integration in my old residency of Raleigh, NC. The bigotry of low expectations, if one has to use that vocabulary, apparently is best combatted by not isolating the disadvantaged from those that have high expectations of themselves and their children.

So, in the next ( Read more... )