The importance of social learning about Equality and Diversity as a factor in the making society equitable is an important one.

Learning about fairness

OBVIOUSLY, there are certain limits to the plasticity of us as human beings. Human beings cannot learn to go without the substances within our body need in order tosurvive. We cannot learn to live under water like fish or to fly like birds.Our structure imposes some restraints on our adaptability. A group that institutionalised universal celibacy as a way of life would soon die out.Even here, of course, we cannot predict easily what we the individual might do.

Physical survival is not the sole determinant for what a Human being can do.

Many human beings have learned to espouse death for ends that seemed more important than life itself. However, if as human beings we wish to survive, our bodysets the limits for this learning. Within these biological limits human being we learned an amazing variety of patterns of living, of behaving, and of feeling.

BEHAVIOURS, values, and relationships, which can be found among human beings in almost infinitely diversified forms, depend on socialisation for their formulation and perpetuation. In data provided by ethnologists, sociologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and educators, we find evidence to indicate that social behaviour is learned behaviour. Personality develop­ment and socialization are intimately related, since the course of one largely depends on the course of the other. The particulars of human being's biological organism apparently provide the only limits set on the poten­tial variety of patterning in the behaviour, beliefs, and relationships we may adopt.

• What do we actual understand about equality and diversity?
• Why does this matter?
• What do you think?