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Jul 30, 2023Liked by Jeffrey Nall, Ph.D.

Having been a teacher and a parent, I agree emphatically with Fromm. To be prepared to deal with the current realities, students need to find ways to find what's real and not to jump to unsubstantiated conclusions. The necessary combination of facts and investigative thinking reveals acceptance of others and potential unity, not the divisive and dangerous culture we seem to see currently.

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Lovely piece. I think Fromm's critique stands, however we have to decide what we want school to do: train people or teach them to think. You can't do both at the same time. Ideally, school would do both, but from what we're seeing - not well.

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