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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: <725874687snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- References: <2934908985.1.p00004@psilink.com>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 93 07:51:27 GMT
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- In article <2934908985.1.p00004@psilink.com> p00004@psilink.com writes:
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- > *Of course* people who are trying to change values will try to get
- > theirs into the schools, and the people who like the old ones will try
- > to keep them out. There just isn't any Archimedean point outside the
- > struggle from which one can decide, in a value-free way, what's
- > legitimate value transmission and what's indoctrination. My values are
- > going to seem like indoctrination to John McCarthy, if they ever work
- > their way into his kids' curriculum, as his would to me -- or rather, I
- > should say, as his *did* to me, when I was in high school a few decades
- > ago in a small Southern town.
-
- Something to be said for respecting *all* points of view, yes?
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- The benefit of being exposed to "the bad" is that it gives some real
- texture and substance to "the good", perhaps finally enabling you to
- *think* about what is really good and bad out there in the big world.
- I mean, being exposed to "his curriculum" gave you a valid perspective
- on life, didn't it?
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- This taking sides is a cul-de-sac born losers find themselves in.
-
- Gil
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