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- From: s1mbm@isuvax.iastate.edu (michael bruce mcdonald)
- Subject: it seems to be about vision . . .
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 07:10:17 GMT
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- Frankly, I'm much more interested in discussing books than getting into
- a hopelessly long-winded virtual shouting match over a *review* of a book
- that none of us has yet read.
-
- I was going to let Dani Zweig's post just go by, but I'll just say this:
- Zweig's post is impeccably logical if one accepts the initial premise, which
- is that education used to be "value-free." As that premise is profoundly
- absurd, however, the rest of the edifice topples of its own accord.
-
- Thanks to Mike Morris for the clarifying post; if nothing else, I feel that
- I now know something about Morris's heartfelt concerns, and that Morris
- isn't just jerking the knee at the spectre of 'liberal' indoctrination.
- I'm not sure that I can yet say the same for McCarthy or Zweig.
-
- I must say, in closing, that I still cannot see from the review that was
- posted how some of you can be so damn sure that the author's goals are to
- indoctrinate rather than to educate. At any rate, thank the deity of your
- choice, the upcoming generation seems to have more sense than to deny the
- cogency of the notion of caring for the environment, by and large.
-
- michael mcdonald
-