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From: laura@l5.uucp (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools.
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Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 04:34:36 EDT
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At some point it would be nice to figure out what we really want our schools to
be doing. To some extent they are just a ``holding pen/baby-sitting service''
for children until tehy become adults. I don't think that 12 years of school
is actually essential -- and I do think that high school students should get
to persue a lot of non-essential knowledge simply because they are interested in
it.

How much of what you were taught was junk? How much of it were you taught
five times in successive years? How many interesting thigns were you told
you couldn't learn yet? There is a lot of waste going on here.
-- 
Laura Creighton		(note new address!)
sun!l5!laura		(that is ell-five, not fifteen)
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