That may well be so: but there remains rather a large difference between a government instructing you to do something, a government instructing you not to do that thing, and a government leaving you free to do or not do that thing as you see fit. I’d need a lot of persuading that the third of these options is not to preferred, in this as in most other circumstances.
http://www.thisisrumorcontrol.org/node/2277
"A report in the Guardian [English newspaper] suggests that despite the revisions, some teachers will offer students their own take on recent events with one young woman who is studying to be a teacher saying: "I will teach my students what I see: that Americans are the terrorists. Bush entered Iraq to take oil, not to free Iraq. They just want money and oil from Iraq. This is what I know and this is definitely what I will teach."
The writer correctly identifies Plato as the one who argued that "those who tell the stories rule society"
The article is titled: "Those Who do not Know History are Doomed to Repeat It."
We've all heard that one. It is an absolute. I don't see that the writer gave credit to the author of the phrase, but i believe it was George Santayana in his book: "Life of Reason, Reason in Common Sense" (Scribner's, 1905)
These truisms are modern day parables.
the Parables, catchy little phrases that kids could memorize and would recall from time to time throughout life, were/are valuable lessons - truths well remembered and followed.
You wont hear them today -