On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:39 PM, David B. Shemano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeez, if I was Jim Devine I would be offended how you were speculating about > my views. However, since I am not Jim Devine, feel free to speculate away > and then speculate how I woiuld respond to your rebuttal. >
Sorry if I offended you, but I was not speculating at all. Your earlier mail presented an interrogative that strongly implied a conclusion but left it unsaid. I just stated it explicitly. > In the meantime, I am just making a common sense observation. I would think > that if you were about to advocate an education campaign to achieve a goal, > you would want to consider the realistic chances of success, and one > important data point would be to consider how people actually act. I mean, I > don't think it takes a lot of "education" to convince people to like > chocolate, sex, vacations in Hawaii, but convincing my kids to practice the > piano, do their homework, etc. is often a real struggle > I am certainly not advocating any mass-education campaign. I think a mass-uneducation campaign to help us all unlearn and unindoctrinate everything we were taught would be a much better idea - if we knew how to do it. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
