If we can't change hearts and minds then what else is there?

[leftofcool]

I get it. You can't change the thinking of an adult. No amount of sensitivity training will do a damn thing for a cop or anyone else who has so much insensitive shit stuffed into his brain. No 3 day tolerance class will make a person tolerant if they are so blinded by religion, what their parents taught them, what their neighbors say etc... If we can't change the hearts and minds of adults, why can't we begin with the children who have a clean slate? We make mandatory math, history, science, and English but not one school in this country mandates the teaching of tolerance and sensitivity. I wonder what would happen if starting in preschool, all children "had" to take tolerance and sensitivity courses every year in a public school? Each year, said courses would go farther in depth than the year before and maybe by the time a kid's Senior year rolled around who knows? Is this something that might help us become a kinder, more gentle, less bigoted nation?