Article #6 >>>>> Concise Observations on Existence and Education

Revolutionizing K-12 Education Will Transform Human Intellect, Morality, and Culture

Human intellect, morality, and culture are entirely produced by the interaction between biogenetic inheritance and environment.  A person's genetic inheritance at birth, neural development over the first five years of life, and experiences thereafter determine who she or he shall be.

Since this is the case, the human predicament is even more daunting than existentialists Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Csmus conceptualized >>>>>

Women and men are positioned to forge individual and collective destinies, but via decisions rather than choices. 

Choice implies free will, which does not exist.  

Decision-making involves selection from biogenetically and environmentally detetermined possibilities likely to produce the most positively rewarding outcomes.  

Only decision-making is in accord with psychological reality.  

Hence, women and men do not freely determine their own destinies, as Sartre and Camus maintained.  Rather, their destinies are determined by the behavioral options exercised in the context of biogenetic and environmental determinants.

Via curriculum design that imparts to our precious young people a wealth of knowledge and moral values drawn from the world's great belief systems, with both curricular knowledge and ethics serving as the basis for vigorous analysis and discussion, we will create an informed and astute citizenry.  Such a citizenry will be positioned to create individual and collective lives of cultural enrichment, civic engagement, and professional satisfaction. 

In the absence of a broad and deep information base and ethical instruction, individual lives tend toward ignorance and immorality.  But upon a shared body of knowledge and ethics, generated and perpetually evaluated in discussions with their fellows, women and men are positioned to think clearly and behave so as to maximize the common and, as a result tbe individual, good.

This is the power of K-12 education revolutionized for knowledge intensity and elevated ethical content.