ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book asserts that the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) design is emblematic of dozens of similar ventures comprising a vast "tolerance industry" permeating America's schools and illustrates a more pervasive transformation of "tolerance". It discusses in detail what professional educators advance under the "promoting tolerance" banner. The PBS framework envisions tolerance as centrally pertaining to individuals themselves, even at a tender age, not to a potentially repressive government. Instilling tolerance is preventive, and is rooted in a particular psychological theory regarding the centrality of attitudes in foretelling actions. Establishing tolerance was a practical matter. John Locke held that it was futile for the king or Parliament to try and discern what people genuinely believed, and this inner faith was all that ultimately mattered in the eyes of God.
