The question is will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?
I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
The truth is in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very style which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.
I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
It is impossible that anything so natural so necessary and so universal as death should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.