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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 09:16:37 HST
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- From: Len Howard <tas@PEGASUS.COM>
- Subject: Re: That unnamed subject
- In-Reply-To: Fred Rump from home <fr@COMPU.COM> "Re: That unnamed subject"
- (Dec 23, 7:22pm)
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- Fred, your post strikes a responsive chord with me. If it is
- demostrated that the existence of a 'code of moral belief' in the
- school leads to more success in the students, more collegiality in the
- teachers, more 'belonging' in the students, then why is our society wo
- unwilling to accept the need for teaching moral values in the public
- schools. Are the benders and shapers so blind that they cannot see,
- or are they more interested in theoretical individual 'freedom' than
- they are in the preservation of our country. For, like it or n, if we
- continue the route of 'me first', our country will be destroyed from
- within in two or three more generations, and will turn into a Bosnia-
- Hertzogovia of groups of armed wars holding the country hostage
- because no one is willing to give of themselves for the benefit of
- society as a whole. Extereme view maybe, but the tres already there
- in the regionalism and factionalism of the various ethnic groups in
- our contry. They do not look on themselves as Americans, but rather
- Mexican-Americans, Asian-Americans, Pacific-Americans or
- Italian-Americans. This divisivness is the seed which, watered by the
- rain of self-interest, will grow into revolution.
-
- Putting that all aside for a few days, may the love of God that
- manifested in the incarnation be with you and yours. Len Howard
-