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Does your knowledge empower you to create, or does it only tell you why things cannot be done? Is the modern classroom producing architects of the future, or merely components for an already existing machine?

When your Education limits your Imagination, it is called Indoctrination. — Nikola Tesla

Tesla was famous for his ability to conduct entire experiments within his mind. He would build, test, and refine his complex inventions in his imagination until they were perfect, often bypassing the need for physical prototypes until the final stage of development. This level of mental freedom required him to look past the rigid, often limiting frameworks of the scientific establishment of his era.

True learning should be a gateway to new possibilities, not a fence built around what is currently deemed realistic. If the things you have learned make it harder for you to conceive of new ideas, you have been taught what to think rather than how to think.

To the New York Times:

Donald Trump stated, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters.”

He’s done far worse, yet Republicans in Congress do nothing and he’s lost few voters.

I’ve worked in Africa for more than 20 years. When I left to return to the U.S. this month, I looked at my many friends, embracing each one and thinking “This is likely the last time I see you. You are going to die because of the decisions of my evil President. “

Bush’s USAID saved Africa. Over years, I saw disease and hunger diminished. Babies were no longer born with HIV’s death sentence because USAID provided mothers with preventive medicine.

It’s changed.

I run a nonprofit organization in eastern Africa, largely populated by subsistence farmers who barely survive. They need the “hand UP” provided by USAID. Without it, they’ll succumb to HIV or starvation.

Now Trump is adding insult to injury by attempting to send Americans at risk of Ebola to Kenya, again ignoring the sovereignty of a foreign nation. This is an outrage. It must not stand.

Trump is deranged and evil. His supporters in Congress are not. Yet they do nothing as our democracy moves further down the road to perdition.

Trump’s perfidy could be stopped in a New York minute if Congress would act. Have they no decency?

Kathleen Harrison, PhD
Founding Director, Project Harambee
www.projectharambee.org
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ProjectHarambee.org A Letter Home from Kenya - April 2026 Submitted by John McNulty on Sat, 2026-05-09 18:06 Please read Keen's latest report from her trip to Kenya. Please copy the link below into your browser. https://conta.cc/4mVLkAY Read more about A Letter Home from Kenya - April 2026 Add new comment

There's a very nice supermarket near where I stay in Kenya. I got in this checkout line because I thought I qualified as a person of determination. Looking again, I thought...maybe not.