I think the key word here is "strangely".
On Oct 29, 12:49 am, Vamadevananda <[email protected]> wrote:
> " Strangely I think Ian and Pat are both sort of right here."
>
> I am by now used to your confused, unsubstantial non - ideas and poor,
> unconvincing ambivalence, Neil ! And I doubt if it is just old
> age ...
>
> On Oct 28, 8:26 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 'Your' not 'you're' Pollard! What a fucking celebration of fucking
> > mediocrity! I don't much go for the wimp-wristed non-competition,
> > suspecting a fresh competition of wimpery. One of Foucault's
> > colleagues once gave out university certificates on a bus, and now
> > we're all doing it. Come to think of it, schooling is a kind of
> > celebration of mediocre sex and travel of the brain leaving
> > substantial numbers pregnant in order to escape and the rest in need
> > of arithmetic and spelling lessons! We don't need Utopia (itself
> > implying a place that can never exist), but a sense of community,
> > regulation and fairness that structures freedom. The demise of the
> > red-penned English teacher of my first line might not be a bad
> > start ... Darwinism also implies some kind of nurturing away from 'red
> > in tooth and claw'. Strangely I think Ian and Pat are both sort of
> > right here.
>
> > On 28 Oct, 14:01, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > 2009/10/28 Pat <[email protected]>
>
> > > > Of course we have schools all wrong. We encourage children to
> > > > compete against one another--to score better on tests than their
> > > > peers, to excel at sports over their their peers and teach them that
> > > > the only way THEY will do well is if they can continue to beat
> > > > everyone else 'out there' in the real world.
>
> > > Totally wrong, Pat. This is exactly what we don't do any more in schools.
> > > My
> > > nephew's recent sports day was pathetic. No prizes for the winners
> > > (because
> > > "everyone was a winner")! What a fucking celebration of mediocrity.
>
> > > Unsurprisingly, the most popular schools -- and the ones with the highest
> > > level of achievement -- are the ones that are independent, fee paying, and
> > > encourage competition in all areas.
>
> > > We don't live in the kind of utopia you're philosophy requires, sadly;
> > > Darwinism still reigns.
>
> > > Ian- Hide quoted text -
>
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