Burkas and Beer

The scene in a Western business hotel in Kuala Lumpur just now: a fully burka'ed woman and male companion sitting in the executive lounge at a table next to a nearly naked woman drinking a beer with her male companion. I’m sure that each, at some level, is thinking the other is sinful/decadent/crazy/oppressed. It reminds me that pluralism in practice is hard, and perhaps not even the normal state of things. Yet such scenes must become commonplace in order for people to live peacefully in an ever-denser urban world.How do we, in private, independent and international schools produce more students with a pluralistic mindset? Maybe that can be the real public purpose of private education.