Using information gathered from over two decades of personal research, Gregorc shares portions of his phenomenologically-based Mind Styles Model . Environmental biases influence educators in and out of the classroom. Religious schools indoctrinate their pupils with their theology and the requisite language, symbols, customs, rituals and rules of conduct. And schools that prepare citizens in every nation link the national ideology to the preparation of its people. The schools in socialist nations turn out socialists.
Communist nations train communists.
And democratic nations prepare their citizenry to apply democratic principles to their lives. The United States ingrains the citizens with the tenets of its unique democracy. We learn the spiritual meanings that underlie national symbols such as the Eagle, the Eye of Providence, the Unfinished Pyramid, and the Stars and Stripes. And we are inspired by fundamental principles such as Natural Laws, unalienable rights, all men being created equal, and every citizen's right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. From the visionary foundation of America, we are then provided specific ways of bringing the Spirit of America into practice in daily life.