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Subject: Welsch's goal 3 for education
Message-ID: <4121@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Nov-83 16:06:31 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 29 16:06:31 1983
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Larry Welsch thinks "The public should not pay for or support the teaching
of dogmas and/or propaganda."  Rotsa Ruck.  What you are proposing is
somewhere between impossible and inconceivable (unless you abolish
public-supported schools, but you didn't want to do that.)

Even if you could succeed, I'm not sure I'd want you to.  You seem to want
to inspire a kind of cognitive relativism toward all subject areas.  Reminds
me of a story a friend of mine told me about her friend with Unitarian
parents.  "They won't tell me anything; I'm always supposed to make up my
own mind, or believe whatever I want to.  How can I make up my own mind if I
have no basis to decide on?"  I can sympathize.  Often it seems you can
learn more from an advocate of one point of view than one who's trying to be
"neutral".
					--Paul Torek, umcp-cs!flink