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To: 13Sisters76
I do NOT understand what frightens you people so- presenting BOTH THEORIES for what they are and allowing students to develop some critical thinking skills should be a GOOD thing.

What a good idea--I think we should invite tone-deaf people to teach music classes on occasion, and street rappers to teach english grammar once in a while, and we should bring in prostitutes from time to time to teach hygiene classes. This imperious narrowing of intellectual development in our children to only the things that we think are the attainments of our culture has got to stop.

2,517 posted on 12/23/2005 9:25:39 AM PST by donh
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To: donh

Better yet- WHY don't we present both theories for what they TRULY are- man vs God or materialism vs theism. Why not show students what is REALLY at stake here? I say we show what comes from a "me first" mindset.
I have held a suspicion that some of those in here presenting themselves as "libertarians" aren't truly that at all. At worst some of you are nothing more than "stealth" lefties looking to start trouble and, at BEST, the very sort of libertarian- boozy, beer-soaked frat boy, short sighted and hedonistic thinkers who can't imagine an issue beyond your pleasure, your money, your convenience, your porn and your dope issues- who will make it an absolute impossibility to EVER see a true libertarian in DC.
YES- BOTH theories. Try to imagine an education system- supported only at the local level- where students are taught both theories and where both are actually discussed in a dispassionate and intelligent way. Imagine a generation of critical thinkers who learn a little SOMETHING, enough to make their own decision on which to believe.
It is not incumbent upon the REST of us to accept what the leftists- or YOU- tell us we MUST believe.


2,802 posted on 12/28/2005 2:44:09 AM PST by 13Sisters76
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