In what kind of world do we want our children and grandchildren to grow up? What kind of people do we want them to become? What questions would you add?
Do we want our children and grandchildren to believe all people are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, or that some people are entitled to privileges because of who they are?
Do we want them to treat people with respect and dignity or to think it okay to insult, ridicule, accuse, or attack other people?
Do we want them to be kind to one another or hateful?
Do we want our children to view the colors, shapes, and sizes of our bodies and the languages we speak as varying shades of beauty or do we want our differences to be a basis for judging others as good or bad?
Do we want them to live in a world where all lives matter, or a place where some lives matter more than others, and some seem to matter not at all?
Can we teach them police reform is not advocacy for lawlessness rather a demand, through better training, that law enforcement professionals rise to a higher standard?
How do we teach our children and grandchildren the best way to protect our rights is to protect the rights of others?
How do we teach them rights must be balanced by responsibility?
Do we want our children to learn to respect freedom of religion or learn it is okay to impose their religious beliefs on others?
How do we teach them their rights do not allow them to infringe on the rights of others?
How do we balance the interests of individuals against the good of the community?
When did it become okay to view people who disagree with us on important matters as evil, or unpatriotic, or un-American?
What happened to the days when there were issues about which reasonable men and women could disagree?
When things go wrong, shall we teach our children to find someone to blame or should we teach them to work together to find solutions that work for all?
Will the interests of society be better served when all children have a quality education or should a quality education be reserved for a fortunate few?
Do we want an education process in which all kids learn how to be successful and how to develop their potential or an education process that functions like a competition in which some kids win, and others lose?
Do we want our children to think of science as an honest attempt to understand how the universe works, or as a strategy to justify a point of view?
Is history an opportunity to learn from the past experiences of human beings and their governments, or is history something we are free to change to justify whatever we may have done or want to do?
Is it okay if the way we teach children does not work for every student?
Do we teach our kids to always tell the truth or that it is okay to lie if it will help them get whatever they want or do whatever they want to do?
When did the truth become whatever we choose it to be?
How will life be for our children if they live in the world where there are no fundamental truths on which we can all agree?
Let us not forget we are all who and what we learned to be.