I believe you are correct, Gerhard.  These are certainly important 
considerations.  It is fundamentally true that culture and location are to 
important to overlook.  Thank you.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerhard Fiedler" <lists@connectionbrazil.com>
To: <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 7:43 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] Education reform:


> Rich wrote:
>
>> [...] but with respect to political philosophy I am still inclined to
>> believe that the constitutional republican government in the U.S. has as
>> close to a level playing field as possible, ideally.
>
> I agree with that, with two additions. One is that what works as 
> government
> structure depends a lot on the culture of a region; what works in one 
> place
> may not work in another. It seems that some people forget that now and 
> then
> (or disagree with it). The other is related to this: as much as culture
> changes with the place, it changes with time, and what works well also
> changes with time. And hopefully our standard of what works well increases
> with time (of course not continually, but at least generally... :).
>
> Gerhard
>
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