Mr. Baldwin,
I do, first and foremost hope this letter finds you well. I’ve read your work on the topic what teachers affect for us in society and it really made a lasting impression for readers such as me alike. I would first start with how I find a few of your points, such as one following details of our lack of knowledge to our separate history affecting children growing up. I can call upon this from personally experience, as I wasn’t necessarily well versed in my own history and had no reason to be prideful in my own culture. That may just be the problem with more of the older generations today, as they grew up around when you published this, and as you said, they weren’t properly educated, especially in such education systems where strong bias was bred. As you’ve referenced, Man is indeed a social animal, and without the common consensus of an ideal, we’re left with what we fear the most, the unknown. The knowledge that was failed to be taught lead to a great portion of the generation to be misinformed and left clueless on the lives people lived and their history wasn’t shown either, so how can you understand someone you don’t knows story. Though the actions people over the course of time have endured is completely unjustified, the problems stem from each generations shortcomings of providing wealth in ideology to advance the coming children to prepare for advancement in living through diversity. Our history tells a story, not just of each of our cultures, but of the melting pot of who we became and are now molded together by, and if we don’t analyze how connected we truly are to each other, then we will be segregated as a community more than we are to this day. Though a lot has changed from when you wrote this, just as much stood the same, yet being televised more to bring awareness to such. Anyways, I’m sure you’re busy, so I will leave you to it. Take care!
-Jaydan Ortega
