Education
“The Great Leveler”, as former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Thurgood Marshall called education, is in trouble in the United States. Instead of leveling the playing field and allowing all children to thrive and all adults to continue learning throughout their lives, the United States is suffering from No Child Left Behind and minimum wage policies that assure that neither kids nor adults will have access to the time or the programs available for life’s wondrous possibilities. Instead, we “teach to the test” or grind ourselves down and do not develop the skills and options to become the caring, committed, trusting, respectful, responsible, and knowledgeable persons—the aspects of an ethic of love. Higher education is increasingly off limits to low income people in the United States.