[zamalek]

It's actually strange how much of modern society is inadequate. First ROWE[1] and then Waldorf education (an interesting read, thank you). We somehow turned assumptions into facts for so many facets of society and it's taking us decades to undo that mistake.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROWE

[lotsofmangos]

We have a habit of reaching local maxima in some slightly hilly fields and then declaring them to be the highest mountains possible.