Craig Miller wrote:
This is how it starts to happen. All things being equal one kid graduates
from Kerkhoven-Murdoch-Sunburg
and the other kid graduates from SW High Mpls. All things being equal, then
you read the headline of what MPS does DURING school time. Now picture
yourself as the employer, administrator, Dean, etc.
One of my critics on this thread, claimed that this is how we share and
express our values. What if they aren't your neighbors or neighbors
children's values? Let the school teach two plus two, Shakespeare,
Cry 'havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war.
(Julius Caesar 3.1.275)
(Julius Caesar 3.1.275)
We go to gain a little patch of ground
That hath in it no profit but the name.
That hath in it no profit but the name.
(Hamlet 4.4.18-19)
http://shakespeare.about.com/library/weekly/aa012503a.htm
Langston Hughes,
Hughes' revolutionary voice was so strong, so biting in
presenting the harsh conditions of everyday working folk, especially
those Black and others of color, that in 1953 he was called before the
so-called "Un-American Committee" led by Senator Joseph
McCarthy. Hughes, as well as W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson and so many
others, was accused of being a communist and communist sympathizer.
His passport was taken away, and his
ability to earn a living greatly affected.
http://www.seeingblack.com/x022102/langston100.shtml
Stravinsky,
Stravinsky remained in the West when World War I broke out, and the Russian revolution of October 1917 turned him, like other members of the Diaghilev circle, into a permanent exile.
http://www.iclassics.com/iclassics/timeline_article.jsp?articleId=148
Ravel,
World War I pushed France's musical life to
the sidelines. Ravel himself volunteered for the army, but was
rejected-he was too short and underweight. In 1916, he finally made it
into the army as a truck driver, and even saw the front lines, but his
ill health got him discharged a year later-they thought he had
tuberculosis.
http://www.wgms.com/index.php?nid=155&sid=518
Newton,
He modestly attributed his discoveries largely to the admirable
work done by his predecessors; and once explained that, if he had seen
further than other men, it was only because he had stood on the
shoulders of giants.
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Newton/RouseBall/RB_Newton.html
Einstein,
A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.
The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse
military service.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already
earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since
for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to
civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command,
senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently
I hate all this, how despicable an ignoble war is; I would rather be
torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my
conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act
of murder.
http://www.humboldt1.com/~gralsto/einstein/quotes.html
Lincoln.
"that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have
died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of
freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the
people, shall not perish from the earth."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html
Knowledge held in common. Not the political opinion of SD 60 of the DFL party.
Mr. Miller, examine the quotes and descriptions attributed above
to your scholarly heroes. The words can easily be used to discredit
your view that any child in the Minneapolis School District who
opposes the war is being led astray. It would seem that your cultural
icons REQUIRE a critical eye on warfare and state power and unbridled
authority. It seems that according to criteria you have selected,
our children are learning well -- probably because they are being
taught well.
I am immensely proud of the them.
I'd hire one of them in a minute.
By the way, my ancestors homesteaded in the
Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg area and I grew up in the
Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa area. A rural education is no guarantee of
lock-step homogeneity. I am a living example of that.
Keith Nybakke
Nokomis East
Minneapolis
