We must set an academic tone early. The earlier we begin teaching our children the foundational principles of civic life, the easier it is for them to embrace and practice them upon maturity.
Children, more than other age groups, are ideally-suited to learn languages; knowing multiple languages from a young age give rise to more dynamic thinkers and communicators.
From the beginning, our children must truly know our history, absent nationalist biases, and embrace the importance of historical fluency and the need for active civic engagement.
Scientific literacy and responsibility are paramount to a better future; our children must understand crucial sciences as well as the sciences. Better tools make better builders.
Knowledge is nothing without an environment where creativity is encouraged within the minds of our youth. Our new education must involve an vibrant appreciation of the creative arts.
Without practice, knowledge is vanity. We must build academies and apprenticeships during school for students to properly hone the craft which we are teaching them. Not later, now.
Palesṭīne, the ancestral home of the Palestinian people, is being destroyed by a genocidal apartheid state. By the time you read this, more than 40,000 Palestinians have been murdered by Isrāēli weapons funded by U.S. taxes, with more than 100,000 still unaccounted for under the growing rubble in Ġaza.
Please join Ricky in demanding an end to the genocide, the release of thousands of Palestinian hostages held without reason or trial, the return of Isrāēli hostages, and the cessation of illegal settlements continually being built on Palestinian land in violation of international law.