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“Educational systems usually have a combination of humanistic and pragmatic rules and objectives. We seek the development of happy children because we want them to be happy adults, and happy adults don’t really start wars, and don’t really hurt other…

Joshua Holzer Assistant Professor of Political Science, Westminster College In the late 1800s, the city of Białystok – which was once Polish, then Prussian, then Russian, and is today again part of Poland – was a hub of diversity, with large numbers of…

The mother tongue is what our mothers, or whoever was close while we were growing up, taught us.  In primitive societies it was the mother who took charge of domestic tasks and raising children, it was she who taught us…