Through my father, I learned early on that a well-rounded education of history, literature, geography, mathematics, and science often resulted, counterintuitively, in a more humble approach to life. Like generations of wise men before him, my father had realized early that, as Aristotle said, “The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.” Sadly, I was living in a place and time when there were far too many adults who were comfortably certain in their ignorance and prejudices. And they were so comfortable in that misplaced certainty of their own superiority that they were willing to
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