"The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world"
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The specific intent is tactical. Teach children the vocabulary and habits of fairness early enough that prejudice doesn't get to them first. "Tolerance" here is quietly upgraded from passive acceptance to an active civic skill: recognizing dignity, resisting scapegoats, extending rights even when the culture tempts you to narrow them. The subtext is an admission that the world children inherit will supply plenty of evidence to the contrary. He doesn't deny horror; he treats it as a rival curriculum already at work through headlines, rumors, and recruitment.
The most revealing move is the claim that "there is more goodness than horror". It's less a statistic than a psychological strategy: if kids believe cruelty is the dominant truth, cynicism becomes a permission slip. Dees is warning that despair is politically useful to extremists and socially contagious in classrooms. Confidence, then, becomes moral stamina - the ability to keep choosing fairness even when the loudest stories are brutal. In a culture that often sells outrage as realism, Dees stakes realism on something harder: hope as a disciplined practice.
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Dees, Morris. (2026, January 16). The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-focus-of-tolerance-education-is-to-deal-with-118092/
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Dees, Morris. "The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-focus-of-tolerance-education-is-to-deal-with-118092/.
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"The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-focus-of-tolerance-education-is-to-deal-with-118092/. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
