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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!DIALix!tillage!gil
- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Education and the Environment by Gregory A. Smith
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <725790729snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- References: <2934826781.2.p00004@psilink.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 08:32:09 GMT
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- In article <2934826781.2.p00004@psilink.com> p00004@psilink.com writes:
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- > Well, not quite. Education (in all actually existing cases) involves
- > something that might be called, neutrally, the transmission of values.
- > This process will be referred to as "indoctrination" by those who don't
- > share the values being transmitted. So arguments about "indoctrination"
- > are really just mystified and confused arguments about what values to
- > transmit, and (by implication) what the values of the society should be.
-
- Help us! This is the most convoluted goobledegook I have read anywhere
- on the Internet. Why don't you just leave the kids alone and go play
- with someone your own age? They are smart enough to pick it up as they
- go along themselves, without you screwing their brains with this sort
- of incomprehensible jargon.
-
- McGowen likes children too, and worries about their consciousness.
-
- Why don't you both find yourself a nice woman from among your own
- generation to snuggle up with in bed at night, and get real, yes?
-
- Gil
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