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From: faustus@ucbvax.ARPA (Wayne Christopher)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Education and kids (Re:Parents' "rights" and responsibilites, etc)
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Date: Sat, 1-Sep-84 12:56:42 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep  1 12:56:42 1984
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If you think that the US is just as bad as the USSR when it
comes to propaganda in the educational system, you don't know
much about the communist system. First, by the time a student
reaches high school, he can easily read outside material about
the government, etc, that gives alternatives to the stuff he has
learned in school. No such opportunities in Russia. Also, the
sorts of propaganda that are taught in the Russian schools don't
compare at all with what is taught in the US -- it is a stated
policy of the Russian educational system to "instill hatred for
the enemies of the state" into the students. Maybe our system
teaches that the Russians are the bad guys, or at least tries to
do so, but it certainly doesn't fill the students with a desire
to go and kill Russians. Besides, any time somebody doesn't like
what his children are being taught, he can take them out of the
public school system and put them into a private school that is
more in line with what he considers to be reasonable education.
Not in Russia.... Try to think a bit before you go to such
lengths to blame the system here, and if you must, please
suggest improvements (I haven't seen any in the current
discussion.) 

	Wayne