Education Makes Human Beings More Articulate. It

The Increasing Tendency Towards Seeing People In Terms Of One Dominant ‘identity’ (‘this Is Your Duty As An American’, ‘you Must Commit These Acts As A Muslim’, Or ‘as A Chinese You Should Give Priority To This National Engagement’) Is Not Only An Imposition Of An External And Arbitrary Priority, But Also The Denial Of An Important Liberty Of A Person Who Can Decide On Their Respective Loyalties To Different Groups (to All Of Which He Or She Belongs).

I Think That So Many Of Our Abilities To Do Things Depend On Interaction With Each Other.

We Must Go On Fighting For Basic Education For All, But Also Emphasize The Importance Of The Content Of Education. We Have To Make Sure That Sectarian Schooling Does Not Convert Education Into A Prison, Rather Than Being A Passport To The Wide World.

Hardly Any Famine Affects More Than 5 Percent, Almost Never More Than 10 Percent, Of The Population. The Largest Proportion Of A Population Affected Was The Irish Famine Of The 1840s, Which Came Close To 10 Percent Over A Number Of Years.

The Governments And The Hard-headed Military Establishment And The General Conservative Part Of America Have Never Taken Much Interest In Democracy, Anyway.