Democrats and Republicans disagree whether college is worth the cost

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34. If you view the world as simply one of money and things, then your view makes

sense.

But if you view the world as human, animal, plant and material, then your view makes no sense. If you view the world as encompassing all things alive and things not alive, then you, as a human, want to be able to assess and understand your place in that world.

Only when we understand our place in the entire world of trees, of horses, of lions, of stars and constellations as well as of our fellow man, do we have the judgment and the social and spiritual values to live consciously, constructively and in harmony and peace with the world.

So that is, I submit, the problem with your view of education.

If your view of education had been dominant in the time of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, Voltaire, John Locke, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, even Theodore Roosevelt, in the time of America's greatest moments, we, as a nation would not have risen to change the world.

We are not simply material objects thrown haphazardly into a material world in which making things and money is the point of life.

We are spiritual, social beings with needs that are partially but by no means entirely satisfied by things and money. We need and must have much more than career success to survive as a human race and as individuals.

Right now, in the Trump administration, we are seeing a regime that would agree with your view of education completely. They are wrong.

That materialistic point of view drives nations to war and results in hunger and despair because it is bent in only one direction. It does not serve the entirety of either the individual or society as a whole. It sees humankind as a bunch of things, as tools for a special elite of bosses. It is wrong.