Education: Anthropology for Youngsters

People are always making positive statements to children about race. Why not tell them the facts as far as science has discovered them? I start right in telling them that what looks like inferiority turns out to be mere difference. Biologically there is no superiority or inferiority; the largest brain known to science is the brain of an idiot. Man is the only animal that blushes and the only one that needs to, for we [alone] persecute each other for differences.

This statement is by a powerhouse of a woman teacher who is about to...

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