Florence Matusky proposes that K-12 public education's primary focus on one hemisphere only (the left-brain) - to be test smart, not wise - produces students whose impoverished, "approved" knowledge is not for understanding self, others, or how to live, but for programming them with by-the-book, academic knowledge then reducing them to numbers. The rationale for flourish or perish ensures failures and dropouts; fosters poverty, crime, violence, addictions, greed, or selfishness; and jeopardizes two of America's Four Freedoms (freedom from fear and want). No one comes into this world and to...