Acknowledgments   .......................................................................... xi

Foreword by Viktor E. Frankl .......................................................... xv

Preface .......................................................................................... xvii

Introduction: Why This Book?  ......................................................... 1

Meaning or Pleasure? Viktor Frankl Against Sigmund Freud ........... 22

Vienna ........................................................................................ 24

Auschwitz   ................................................................................. 30

Meaning   ................................................................................... 35

Work We Create   ................................................................ 37

Human Encounter and Love  ................................................. 40

The Unchangeable Fate  ....................................................... 42

Homo Patiens ...................................................................... 45

Happiness.................................................................................... 47

Training or Education? America's Cultural Dilemma ....................... 50

The Dilemma   ......................................................................... 52

A "Three-Dimensional" Human   ............................................ 53

Educating About........................................................................... 56

A Bit of History ............................................................................ 62

Progressivism ............................................................................. 68

An Alternative ............................................................................. 70

A Future Educational Reform   ...................................................... 71

Abandoned: Our Children ............................................................... 80

Sweet Little Fingers  .................................................................. 86

School ...................................................................................... 96

Books ....................................................................................... 102

Love ........................................................................................ 107

Music ...................................................................................... 118

Violence ................................................................................. 122

The Working Class   .............................................................. 127

Science and Society: Our Scientific Ignorance ............................ 135

The Bell Tolls: Society's Cognitive Inhomogeneity  ..................... 162

Just Say No: America's Drug Culture ........................................... 170

Men Are From Mars, Women Are from Venus:

Gender Polarization in America ................................................... 184

Harlem High, Year 2050: Racism and Ignorance ......................... 199

Aliens Are Coming: America's Moral Dilemma .............................. 212

Beware of the Indifferent .............................................................231

A Civic Void   ............................................................................. 232

      Responsibility   ........................................................................... 236

      Battered the First Amendment, Forgotten the Ninth ........................ 237

Abused and Exploited   ................................................. 239

Litigation Explosion ...................................................... 244

Abandoned Ninth Amendment ..................................... 247

Our Children's Rights......................................................................... 250

The Aborted Healthcare Reform   ..................................................252

My Enemy—The Government   ..........................................................259

Conclusion: The Future   ............................................................... 267