[Krimel to Platt] I did it looked like a knee jerk reaction to rumors of change.
[Arlo] No kidding. What a shock. Liberals are to blame to blame for everything. The Academy is destroying America. "Just right-wing politics" as Pirsig called it, comes up again and again and again But since this came up a while back in the Church of Reason thread, I'll mention it again here. Before you can look into "fixing" education, you need to know why you are educating in the first place. What is the purpose of an educated citizenry? Voting? Labor? "Because its the right thing"? Democratic participation? Technological advancements? To meet the needs of manufacturing and industry? "Better job"? To separate the wheat from the chaff (social darwinism)? If there is a crisis in education, I'd posit that it starts here. [Krimel] You are my hero, Arlo. Such incredible patience! Over the years I have watched you wade through this crap tirelessly. I have always had this Pollyanna belief that people are not really stupid they just need to have things explained better or maybe they just have not been presented with the right information. I know how hard it is to see the errors in our own thinking. I have been through it many times and it is painful. I have always found in the long run it is better to suffer the pain and do the rethinking. In the novel the Dain Curse, Dashiell Hammett said something to the effect that people become rigid in their thinking because it is a lot of trouble to figure something out. Once they do it, they do not like to go through the trouble of figuring it out again. Between Hammett and the Stossel's program on the Power of Belief I am reminded that at one point in the movie Haley Mills' Pollyanna gets paralyzed and her attitude seriously takes a dive. Or as one cynic put it a pessimist is and optimist with experience. moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
