There are a lot of “useful idiots” who who want attention or want to feel important.

Physical World - we have a general mutual interest in preserving the planet. In large part, the interest is expressed in a negative way - we don’t want to lose our place to live - the playing field, as it were. Education and science can help us in this area.

Many of the tenants of Progressive Education sound pretty good. Teach from involvement and by example,

It wasn’t until writing was invented that education took hold and evolved.