WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS IS...
"W hat this country needs is a good five-cent cigar", a well-known American phrase coined, it seems, by a politician, Thomas Marshall, whose quidity is similar to Thoreau's "simplify, simplify." Any country needs an easy-to-understand government language, English, Spanish, or Farsi, t hrough instruction in their national language, ensuring communication is accessible to all . What any country needs is good drilling in their language to make communication available to all. What we need is a good five-cent book that might spread culture, the five-cent theater ticket. Just as a nation benefits from clear, accessible language, it also thrives on affordable books to spread culture and inexpensive theater tickets to cultivate the arts. The 'five-cent' philosophy reminds us that the essentials of culture and communication should be simple, accessible, and within everyone's reach.