Great stuff. Thanks for the education.
115 posted on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 10:52:09 AM by Hemingway's Ghost: “Great stuff. Thanks for the education.”
Glad to help, or at least try to do so.
I believe it is important that we understand the potential for the internet as a venue for education. Politics in the days of the Lincoln-Douglas debates assumed a high level of knowledge on the part of the hearers — knowledge not only of current issues of the day but also of American history and principles of political theory and constitutional law.
We can't assume that today, but what we **CAN** do is use the question-and-answer format of internet discussions to try to bring back some of what we have lost through a dumbed-down education system.