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To: Bodega
I ardently hope he is a STEM supporter. We need much more science to be taught and appreciated by students so that witches, fairies and goblins don’t dictate our scientifically driven deductive reasoning.

I think he is more of a "get the federal government out of the education business and leave it to the states, students and schools to work it out" kind of guy. Classical Aristotelian and Platonic philosophy is the opposite of "witches, fairies and goblins" and ultimately led to the scientific method.
37 posted on 11/16/2016 9:04:58 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Classical Aristotelian and Platonic philosophy is the opposite of “witches, fairies and goblins” and ultimately led to the scientific method.
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Well said. Could be the guiding principle for the return of sanity in America’s education systems.


39 posted on 11/16/2016 9:13:47 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (The UN is an anti-American cabal dominated by tin-pot dictators.)
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