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Are we just selfish monsters trying to eat each other? This is what we are to believe if we listen to contemporary propaganda that proclaims selfish competition as natural and reasonable. This apocalyptic view comes from viewing nature as a heartless foe rather than the divine instrument of life. It is a belief system that turns great profit for the merchants of exploitation and war who promote it. The belief that nature is evil also drives the violent xenophobia that has plagued society throughout history. Even evolutionary biologists and social scientists often adhere to this negativity as...

Don Wollett's personal account of his career as a labor lawyer and educator is humorous and yet profound in his critiques of the American legal system and the state of our educational system. His work as a labor lawyer and educator spans New York politics, the pre-war era of civil rights and civil liberties, and k-12 teachers' search for an equitable unionism over the years in New York and California.

This volume compares and contrasts contemporary theories of cognition, modes of perception, and learning from cross-cultural perspectives. The participants were asked to consider and assess the question of whether people from different cultures think differently. Moreover, they were asked to consider whether the same approaches to teaching and development of thinking will work in all cultures as well as they do in Western, literate societies.