Through the use of letters, "Letters on The Promise of Living," shares the wisdom and principles that can lead to a meaningful and purposeful life. The center core of the letters is the six great philosophical questions. What is truth? What is beauty? What is justice? What is liberty? What is equality? What is goodness? In addition, questions of happiness, meaning, relationships, courage, sadness and suffering, and others comprise corollary letters. As Socrates said, "an unexamined life is not worth living." These letters are designed to help the reader with that examination. From the time we...

Public schools have been placed in a straitjacket over the past 30 years through over-regulation as a result of the growing power of the federal government over public education, expanding court decisions, state government legislation, school board policies and procedures, and the media's influence on public opinion. The straitjacket of centralized control and coercive approaches to the problems that public education is facing is not the solution, but actually is part of the problem. And where achievement is lower than desired this book brings attention to the root cause - lack of student...

Public schools have been placed in a straitjacket over the past 30 years through overregulation as a result of the growing power of the federal government over public education, expanding court decisions, state government legislation, school board policies and procedures, and the media's influence on public opinion. The straitjacket of centralized control and coercive approaches to the problems that public education is facing is not the solution, but actually is part of the problem. And where achievement is lower than desired this book brings attention to the root cause - lack of student...