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To: SmithL

One thing the author or the bookstore owner don't fault is how the culture war which replaced the study of Kant, Plato and other "dead white man" in colleges by the trash of such as Rigoberta Menchu may be at fault...


20 posted on 06/22/2006 7:58:26 AM PDT by Alama
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To: Alama

One thing the author or the bookstore owner don't fault is how the culture war which replaced the study of Kant, Plato and other "dead white man" in colleges by the trash of such as Rigoberta Menchu may be at fault...

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Amen to that!


29 posted on 06/22/2006 8:12:10 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Never trust Democrats with national security.)
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To: Alama

Bingo! Plus changing in education philosophy from teaching how to think to what to think. Instead of opening the key to eternal learning by exposing students to intelligent philosophical debates, education today just teaches students to hook onto the best (in terms of the simplest and most entertaining) lecturers to be told what to think about any situation.


32 posted on 06/22/2006 8:23:04 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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