ABSTRACT
People often share important values with those from whom they differ in beliefs, whether they be religious or political. For insight into children's and adults' experience when they are learning, or what they feel when deprived of education, the direct and personal expression of experience imaginatively realised can be of the greatest importance, because it makes these dry bones live. Most religious belief-systems, and some political ones, claim to be comprehensive. The distinction between beliefs and values would not impress them: they claim that their system covers both, and that although there may be shared values in a sense the beliefs are so essential for reinforcing the values that the values cannot be relied on without them. In regimes or parties those who travel or have even official intercourse with people of other beliefs begin to acquire at least a surface tolerance; and with many it goes beneath the mere surface.
