We Can Make The Trains Run On

The Point Is That Profound But Contradictory Ideas May Exist Side By Side, If They Are Constructed From Different Materials And Methods. And Have Different Purposes. Each Tells Us Something Important About Where We Stand In The Universe, And It Is Foolish To Insist That They Must Despise Each Other.

As A Culture Moves From Orality To Writing To Printing To Televising, Its Ideas Of Truth Move With It.

Build An "inclusive Narrative" That Goes Beyond Race, Class, Religion, Etc., So That All May Participate In The "the Great Debates".

School Has Never Really Been About Individualized Learning, But About How To Be Socialized As A Citizen And As A Human Being, So That We, We Have Important Rules In School, Always Emphasizing The Fact That One Is Part Of A Group.

When A Population Becomes Distracted By Trivia, When Cultural Life Is Redefined As A Perpetual Round Of Entertainments, When Serious Public Conversation Becomes A Form Of Baby-talk, When, In Short, A People Become An Audience, And Their Public Business A Vaudeville Act, Then A Nation Finds Itself At Risk; Culture-death Is A Clear Possibility.