The ego provides the immediate reaction to the events of reality.
VOA: special.2010.04.13
These novels, fairy tales, comic strips and storybooks offer Haitian children from three to 17 a welcome distraction from the harsh reality of their immediate surroundings and an opportunity to read despite the destruction of many libraries.
The big purpose of education is to prepare good citizens by providing them with a foundational competency in our cultural way of structuring reality, a process that has immediate impact on the social systems in which they will inevitably participate.
This ugly reality hit home for me recently, when I had to talk an immediate relative through a situation in which he was suckered into a leveraged Oppenheimer bond fund that contained derivatives and lost money.