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From: [e-mail] (Mike Morris)
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Subject: Re: Education and the Environment by Gregory A. Smith
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Date: 30 Dec 92 20:05:42 GMT
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                                 Wednesday, the 30th of December, 1992

Responding to a review of _Education and the Environment: Learning
to Live with Limits_, by Gregory A. Smith, John L. Scott wrote:
  Ah, good.  Yet another reason to homeschool my children.

Michael McDonald writes:
  Do you mean to tell me that with generations of kids having been profoundly
  socialized to blithely accept all sorts of thinks of dubious value (like
  most of America's wars), you can genuinely get up in arms at the prospect
  of kids being socialized to "understand the social costs of environmental
  degradation"?  (Wow! sounds so insidious it must be a Satanic plot or
  something!)

  Maybe that jerk Pat Buchanan was right after all, maybe this *is* a war for
  America's soul, if such socialization can really strike you as "radical."

I don't know. I thought approximately the same thing as John: There is
no way I'm going let them carry out their experiments in indoctrination
on *my* children. It is this rot---together with the fact that there is
so very much like it already in the schools that most of what my wife and I
consider real education gets ignored of a necessity---that has us committed
to homeschooling our children.

                      Mike Morris
               ([e-mail])