Rashomon (sp?) The Japanese film that dealt with the notion of "truth" and what happened. What really happened. It depends. It depends on who you ask and how carefully you listen.
arthur -----Original Message----- From: Brian McAndrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 4:37 PM To: Harry Pollard Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Detailed Analysis of October 7 Speech by Bush on Iraq by the Institute for Public Accuracy Thanks for your response Harry. I like to play with the concept of 'particles of truth' with my students. I got the idea from Heinrich Boll, a German novelist who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1972. He said that if we wanted to determine the truth of a situation we would have to ask each person involved in the situation for their version of the truth. Each of these versions could be considered 'particles of truth'. So Harry what is your version of the truth of Iraq? Rather than the debunking of 'both ways' why not gather as many particles of truth from as many people as possible and see what these multiplicity of perspectives might suggest? My students say that this makes 'right answers' much more complex than they ever imagined. take care, Brian >Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-2C04290E; >charset=us-ascii; format=flowed >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > >Brian, > >Some very dubious conjectures in the debunking, which makes it >useful for students, so long as the debunking goes both ways. > >Harry >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- > >Brian wrote: > >>Should I use this as an excellent example of debunking propaganda >>with my future English teachers? > > >****************************** >Harry Pollard >Henry George School of LA >Box 655 >Tujunga CA 91042 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Tel: (818) 352-4141 >Fax: (818) 353-2242 >******************************* > > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; >x-avg-checked=avg-ok-2C04290E >Content-Disposition: inline > > >--- >Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.394 / Virus Database: 224 - Release Date: 10/3/2002
