Education has many advantages, but fixing disputes isn’t one of them.
“But education does not—cannot—produce agreement on contested values. It cannot bridge axiom gaps. It cannot compel belief in those who smell the compulsion. It cannot cure the biases of the educators.The dream of education as salvation is the dream of bypassing politics—of resolving disagreements through knowledge rather than power. But disagreements about values are not disagreements about facts. They cannot be resolved by more information. They can only be resolved by persuasion, negotiation, coalition-building, or force.”