Mrs. Jellyby, of Dickens' Bleak House, comes to mind. Mrs. Jellyby is a philanthropist who devotes her time and energy to set up a mission in Africa while ignoring the needy in her own family and neighborhood
We do our best by each FIRST taking care of what is to hand. I connect to all humans by a shared human nature and a common origin and destiny in God.
If we start with facts, virtually every college student I've taught was GROSSLY ignorant of his American History and Civics. I would not want them spreading their ignorance and rudderless goodwill to the world at large.I am not being harsh. David Hogg and Greta Thunberg are all aggression and misanthropic vile, that helps nothing.
