Carcharoth wrote: > [Correcting previous post - can't Wikipedia have editable posts?] > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Carcharoth > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Charlotte Webb >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Ray Saintonge <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Nationalism is a major factor in school social studies curricula, and a >>>> great medium for indoctrinating the child with official truth. Access to >>>> Wikipedia and other on-line sources helps him to formulate the >>>> questions that needed to challenge the teachers of those truths. >>> History textbooks tend to lie by omission but the board of education >>> will be loathe to approve anything that explicitly encourages students >>> to look elsewhere for the director's cut. They don't want to deal with >>> the fallout when students report back to class asking why their >>> curriculum bears no mention of the Mỹ Lai massacre, the bombing of >>> Dresden, Operation Northwoods, the Bonus Army, the School of the >>> Americas handbook, Martin Luther King's FBI fan-mail, Jonestown, or >>> the Tuskegee Study, etc. Indeed, who would? > > Doesn't that make the "board of education" part of the problem? > > Carcharoth >
So, replace all such specialist elected and accountable bodies (or bodies accountable to the elected) with a wiki? Replace the expert, who wrote the textbook, with the anarchy of the truth according to whoever made the last edit? I think I'll stay off the koolaid and stick with democracy, professionalism, and expertise - yes it can be, on some occasions, stupid, biased and myopic, but it is still the best system we've got. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
