Harry Pollard wrote: > Chris, > > At times you are funny. > > When I suggested that "Teachers should teach only those who want > to learn - or whose parents want them to learn." > > You replied" > > 'What about the others? This "screw the rest" attitude is so > typical of the FT ideology. It only makes things worse.' > > The "others" are those who don't want to learn and cause trouble > when they are forced to enter classes. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Here you introduce a different variety -- those who cause trouble. The original posting was about those who don't want to learn -- who says that they cause trouble? And who said that they should be in the same classes as those who "want to learn" ? > Of course your collectivist ideology loves the idea of > threatening and forcing people to do what they don't want to do - > but have you thought of the damage they do to the education of > other students? If their particular conditions are being addressed in special classes, there is no "damage they do to the education of other students". Have you thought of the damage that is done to them and society if you leave many children without education ? The problem with your pseudo-individualist ideology is that it ends up forcing unbearable and unsustainable conditions (especially in the long run) on society and individuals because it simply doesn't care about consequences. Your "least exertion" dogma doesn't let you ask WHY children "don't want to learn" (maybe they do want to, but have learning disabilities that look like unwillingness to the superficial observer / incompetent teacher), you don't intend to address or solve the medical and social causes of these problems, you just throw away those "losers". This reckless and myopic concept is definitely not the way to build "the Good Society". > What a wonderful non sequitur is your last paragraph. If you'ld see the whole picture, it wouldn't seem a non-sequitur to you. Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
