The Case for Separation - #8 |
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Today's public schools are no better on the diversity front — just slightly different. In the past, it was the western European cultures that were celebrated and the others looked upon with suspicion and disdain. Today, the situation is reversed in many schools. Tolerance and acceptance of all cultures is something that has never existed in government schools. Likewise on the religious and moral front. But before the advent of public schools and outside schools even today, Americans have plugged away at living in peace with their astoundingly diverse neighbors, and where the government doesn't stick its meddling hand in, they largely succeed. No other country on the face of the earth is so diverse and so peaceful at the same time. Fortunately, Americans manage to recover each time some branch of the government imposes yet another social plan to "improve" something. People have already been making far better progress on their own.
Social reformers are determined to leave nothing to chance. Unfortunately for them it doesn't work with humans. Humans improve when left free to do so, unlikely as that seems to those who would shape others in their image.
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