Boy, What I Could Do With Gates’ Billions!

All manner of horrors bombard us every day from all quarters and their various facets, be it wars in the Middle East, fear of a nuclear holocaust, terrorism that may visit our shores or major cities [the next 9/11], violence in our homes and streets, saving ourselves from the current and next world financial crisis, sexual invasions by our clergy, pollution, discrimination, illegal immigration, etc.  Must we remain forever helpless against the inhumanity of man?  Can we do nothing to protect ourselves?

This book proposes not a correcting but a re-making of the world around us through an educational approach to civilize man not by trying to change him as he is but to re-make him as he should have been made in the first place.  What we have today is predicated on the selfishness and greed behind the actions that have brought us to this terrifying juncture in human history.  Selfishness and greed are not instinctual; proper child education can turn them into consideration, generosity, and respect.  Conduct based on such values can be the basis for an enlightened citizenry and a genuine humane society.

Such education is possible only if free of government (tax) control, hence “Gates’ billions.”  Neither would it be a dependency on Gates, but his charity efforts offer a comparative opportunity.  Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have united their billions in a charity designed to help the needy around the world buying technical equipment, health and educational programs, food, clothes, etc.  These are exemplary efforts to ease suffering and even save lives.  But, sadly, they achieve nothing in changing or preventing the man-made horrors above-mentioned.

Our proposed educational program will be designed with the independent voluntary billions that would compare favorably with the Gates/Buffet billions.  This program would be designed to teach values along with academic/technical/scientific topics: respect, ethics, kindness, generosity, and fair play [justice] through Talent Education [Suzuki Violin Method], the Golden Rule, and Patriotism, not as vaguely understood or scarcely practiced in general.  [Such values are taught in today’s schools, even by most parents.]  A strict parental requirement and commitment for entrance would be exacted, and only children under such oversight and guidance would be admitted into our unique educational system.