Welcome

My quest for understanding is not even approaching completion, so all I can offer is a work-in-progress for you to view, judge, milk, and affect. Over the decades, I have learned that understandings, including this one, are generally imperfect in their abilities to explain and predict.  Multiple perspectives can partially compensate for each other's imperfections and lead to the creation of a new (superior, yet-still-imperfect) understanding that coordinates those perspectives.  Welcome to those who see no problem with this, and to those who see paradoxes lurking here, and to the paradoxes themselves.

Transcultural Education

Transcultural Education wil advance human reasoning so that diverse people can cooperate to build a consensual society that will lead humanity into its future. 

 "Transcultural" means "transcending culture", where the "culture" can be a national or ethnic culture, like American Culture or Chinese Culture, or the culture associated with some other kind of group, such as the different cultures that mathematicians, psychologists, and lawyers inhabit.

A transcultural person can understand that people from different cultures actually see things differently, and that different words for the same thing rarely have identical meanings.  This understanding can lead to a level of humility, as the limits of any given culture become apparent.  This humility can lead, in turn, to a propensity to approach the world from multiple perspectives to gain a deeper understanding than can be achieved from any single perspective.

  Cognitive Development

The underlying cognitive structures for math, logic, science, religion, morality, art, music, social relations, and politics progress according to a common sequence of stages, from early sensori-motor actions, to representational thought, to formal thought, to transcultural thought, and beyond.

  Cognitive Evolution

Later stages of cognitive development appeared later in evolution.  The achievement of formal operations made the first great civilizations possible.

The most advanced cognitive levels achieved by the "classics" are commonplace today; as the most advanced cognitive levels of today become commonplace, humanity is becoming increasingly transcultural.