[email protected] wrote: > <<In a message dated [email protected] writes: > > Many new ideas are tangential to a general education about a > subject, but are no less important to the advancement of knowledge. > Textbooks are instruments for parroting the party line of received > wisdom. They do little to address controversial issues.>> > > Controversial issues can be handled by citing two conflicting textbooks :) > I'm sure that the author of the controversy, wrote her own textbook on it, > shortly afterward. > If she didn't then we shouldn't *tttttthurst* her onto the main screen > either. > > I am not at all suggesting that these ideas be put into the "main screen". Nor am I saying that subjects must be controversial, since that would be a presumption of controversy. One merely writes about what he finds; if there is a controversy there will always be someone else available to document the other side.
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