Article #3
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 Camus 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 determined 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, the individual, good.
This is the power of K-12
education revolutionized for knowledge intensity and elevated ethical content.
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