In today s American society, tolerance is as a virtue, perhaps the highest virtue. Our culture teaches our young people that they should not judge another s appearance, behavior, beliefs, activities, and that the reward for withholding such opinions is that they themselves will not be subject to the critical eye of another.
Tolerance does sound appealing.
Yet, sometimes people are wrong and they need to be corrected. Our children especially need to see that there are bad things, bad behaviors, bad beliefs, and they must be directed away from such evil and back to what is right, good and just. But our society now holds other qualities in greater esteem than righteousness, goodness, and justice. A prime example of this is Sir Winston Churchill, whose birthday was November 30 and whose life is, therefore, on the minds of those who study history. Churchill was, throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, virtually alone in his opposition to Hitler.