Few have expressed their thoughts on humanism as cogently as Joseph "Joss" Whedon, creator of several television programs. Early in 2009 Whedon received the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Cultural Humanism award from the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University. Here, in part, is what he said while accepting the award:
I think that basically there really is only one answer (to "codify our moral structure" in non-theistic terms), and it is education, education, education.... the only way to break down systems truly without violence, and without chaos, and without all the things that people think of non-believers as espousing, is education. It is categorically the one thing that we must bring to our neighborhood, our people, our families, our world, other countries... (The) enemy of humanism is not faith... it's ignorance.
Education, education, education! In May 2008, the American Humanist Association announced the establishment of the Kochhar Humanist Education Center named for its benefactor, Pritpal Singh Kochhar. The intent is to make humanist education more accessible to all - from young children to adults. In a letter to the membership, Executive Director Roy Speckhardt asked "Who will teach our children about Humanism?" The answer, of course, is committed parents and those who serve as teachers in our chapters and affiliates. Two equally important questions that apply to all ages are "What shall we teach?" And "How shall we teach?"...
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