eduction systematically or rationally.

 eduction systematically or rationally.

As discussed above, an eduction systemically improves our ability to understand and evaluate one another, provided that we take seriously that a shared eduction system must transcend our day-to-day concerns.

Simply put, eduction — and the assurance of our own learning — are crucial to the survival of human communities. If the eduction system cannot survive the dissolution of these communities, perhaps it can at least survive the dissolution of individual human beings.

Assurance of learning is also key to the survival of democracy. If we do not learn to accurately assess others — and in so doing we are unable to properly control our fear and justify our use of force in defense of our assumptions — we will both end up with authoritarian regimes and get locked into a wasteful, meaningless political cycle.

But even if democracy does ultimately prove to be doomed, it has already secured an important prize: eduction. If democracy has not yet brought us into global