delicious. :)
On 13 Apr 2001, at 13:40, Gogala, Mladen scribbled with alacrity and cogency:
> ... As a DBA and a gentleman I can not but take
> pride
> in helping people to stop making mistakes.
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next:
... John Leo on CSPAN. As you may recall, he is the columnist from
"U.S. News and World Report" who gave CSUS President Gerth the 1999
"Sheldon Award" for political correctness.
( http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/000103/03john.htm ).
---excerpt---
...
The coveted annual prize that goes to a wimpy college president
Exhausted staffers for this column have finished wading through
dozens of nominees for the third annual Sheldon Award. Named for
Sheldon Hackney, who scaled the heights of Sheldonism as
president of the University of Pennsylvania, this coveted prize
is given each year to a craven college president who looks the
other way while campus newspapers are stolen.
...
---end---
... on CSPAN, John Leo (warm, mild, grandfatherly, caring,
thoughtful, principled [&witty]) was talking about the topics in his
new book "Incorrect Thoughts" at an event organized by the
Independent Women's Forum.
Since IWF's (very interesting) web site hasn't been updated recently,
I found some other links about Leo's book that you might also find
interesting.
http://www.iwf.org
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John Leo's columns:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/leo1.asp
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(and: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/jleo.htm )
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/leo031201.asp
excerpt from the above link:
... That notion that free speech is a tool of the oppressor is now
mainstream in the campus culture. This is why campus newspapers
with
the wrong news keep getting stolen, posters for the wrong events
keep
getting torn down, and speakers with the wrong views keep getting
disinvited or silenced. Recent nonspeakers at Berkeley, home of the
free-speech movement, include conservative organizer Daniel Flynn
(shouted down) and former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
(threats of violence, advised to withdraw by police). Berkeley gets
another chance to oppose free speech this week. David Horowitz is
scheduled to speak there on March 15
(end excerpt)
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/000612/12john.htm
excerpt from the above link:
... Post-1960s liberalism has lost its communal sensibility and
now talks almost exclusively of autonomy and rights, not
obligation or moral accountability. As Stein [_How I Accidentally
Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy: (And Found Inner Peace)_]
points out, it has
aggressively labored to devalue society by trying to banish moral
and religious discourse from the public arena. Values are viewed
as matters of personal taste. Even the famous liberal belief in
openness, tolerance, and free speech now looks like a discarded
tenet. Witness all the disinvited speakers, stolen newspapers, and
current not-very-liberal efforts to silence Laura Schlessinger and
derecognize campus Christian groups. What passes for liberalism
now,
Stein says, is often an attempt to impose rectitude, "usually with
the
active cooperation of the news media, government agencies, and
Hollywood, all of which somehow get to call their own agenda
'inclusive' instead of 'narrow.' "
(end excerpt)
more at:
http://www.google.com/search?q=john+leo+incorrect+thoughts
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also:
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed191/assignment1/1970illich.html
excerpt:
... According to Illich, "obligatory instruction assumes the
belief that man can do what God cannot, namely, manipulate others
for their own salvation" (1970, p.50). By deschooling society,
schools would continue to exist but their workings would be very
different from those operating at present. Deschooling could only
occur given alternative social arrangements and legal protections
as well as a reconceptualization of what constitutes learning in
the heart of every deschooled person.
According to Illich, schools are the "reproductive organ of a
consumer society" (1970). Schools produce myths upon which an
economic society depends. Schooling is a ritual performed by
participants who are made blind to the discrepancy between the
purpose for and the consequences of the ritual. Despite the
advertised purpose of promoting social equality and democratic
participation, schooling is "the ritual of a society committed to
progress and development" (Cayley, 1992, p. 67). In his thesis
titled, Deschooling Society, Ivan Illich promulgates four myths
created by the school ritual; 1) the myth of unending consumption,
2)
the myth of measurement of values, 3) the myth of packaging
values, and
4) the myth of self-perpetuating progress. ...
...As the creator, propagator, and protector of these four
educational myths, schools retain their sacred positions as the
purveyor of "secular salvation" (Gabbard, 1993).
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