Education
Early education would be accomplished at home as much as possible, often with the help of visiting professionals. Utopian childhood social life outside of the home could gather around pre-kindergarten mental and physical athletic events from chess to chase at nearby elementary schools--but not required. Athletic personal stretch, not compulsive exercise or coaching.
There MUST be reform in academia. As a first step, the public must be educated as to just what college degrees mean, especially professional degrees. Scholarly pursuits and the preparation for it are already considerable pay. A next step is to reduce the Influence of Academe. Universities must move toward a day where they are financially self-supporting--once more.
Justification by authority would be avoided. Students are taught to be wary of Masters of Sound Profound.
Emotion Education
The truth is the basic aim of therapy. Therapies which seek the truth can be important guides to personal development. Most are are valuable for some part of the population. Each would seek to find the one or two that work for him or her.
The random cycles of daily life will mean occasional emotional difficulties even in a utopia where persons are generally happy, hence the need for at least some emotion education from others.
(In the meantime, all those who need help with compulsions and addictions could freely seek therapy or recovery groups and/or books. Nearly everyone has compulsion. and addictions.)
[Recovery Chic. Recovery books have been called "the literary genre of the nineties."]
Another purpose of emotion education is to support the healthy continuance of utopian life as it is being achieved. (That's now.)
Psychochemical Utopias: The many prescription mood elevators, and marijuana, could be permitted for those over an agreed upon legal age. It would be under the supervision or educational psychotherapists. There could be license exams for euphoric substance use.
One can design personal utopian vision exercises as part of personal psychotherapy.
Qualitative Logic
Life's equations are often in approximate arithmetic. Ye very often make decisions with approximate units and solve problem: with imprecise weighting. Likert or not, we weigh priorities inn Likert scales "from one to five" etc.
Off subject, but interesting, Benjamin Franklin left a legacy to both Boston and Philadelphia public schools in his will, using compound interest so that when the last part was recently released it was a sizable chunk of change.
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