Re: OT: Idaho Against North American Union

On 24 Mar 2007 10:20:13 -0700, "bjgkaraoke@xxxxxxx"
<bjgkaraoke@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 24, 7:06?am, FL Turbo <noem...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 03:33:14 GMT, "Paul Popinjay"

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They send their kids to public schools run by the NEA, an organization
of flatout Liberals.
The kids get indoctrinated in multi-culturalism, alternate life
styles, a Reverence for our mother the Earth, and damn near any
leftist cause you care to name.

You're right. God forbid our children should learn tolerance and
empathy for others or respect for the environment.
This could be disasterous for our great nation.


There is a great deal of difference between indoctrination and
education.
Indoctrination demands that the student come to the same conclusions
as the teacher.
Education does not.

They should be taught that, unless they're members of the privileged
class with money, they don't need to think for themselves and should
know their place in society, i.e., be happy with a minimum wage
service job, and content to live in hovels, if they can afford them.
And, unless they vote Republican, they shouldn't vote at all.

This about right, Francis Lee?

Barbara Gallamore

You are absolutely wrong as usual, in your version of political
thought.

The job of the K-12 schools is to teach the basics.
Reading, writing and arithmetic.
I would opine that any education that teaches those things well,
enables the students to learn everything else.

When kids can read, it opens up the whole world to them.
When kids can write, it teaches them how to express concepts in a
logical manner.

To express concepts or thoughts in a logical manner tests your ability
to think things through.
Sloppy thinking begets sloppy writing, and vice versa.
My opinion is that no one can claim to fully understand something
unless they are clearly able to explain it to somebody else.
(I leave aside exceptional geniuses like Albert Einstein)

That does not imply agreement, but it does require understanding.
One of the VRWC commentators, Dennis Prager, often states that he is
not looking primarily for agreement: he is looking for clarity.

Conservatives have been talking about the pitiful state of education
in this country for years now.

Students getting a decent education don't come out with the concept
that
"unless they're members of the privileged class with money, they don't
need to think for themselves......."

That phrase is associated with the victimization Mantras of the
political Left.

Don't try to hang that one on to Conservatives.

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