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From: edk@gryphon.CTS.COM (Ed Kaulakis)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: Omni-Americans
Message-ID: <2828@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 11 Mar 88 06:37:27 GMT
References: <5017@uwmcsd1.UUCP> <2790@gryphon.CTS.COM> <1221@uop.edu>
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, Ca.
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Summary: How did things get fubar wrt education?

In article <1221@uop.edu>, todd@uop.edu (Dr. Nethack) writes:
[elided good stuff]
> 
> The Omni-ites I know seem to want to beleive it, wheather it is true or
> not, so long as it is what they want to believe.  This is a dangerous
> trend and I have seen it spreading!
> 
> Perhaps this is not the place for *this* type of discussion, but the
> circular reasoning that it involves is down right manipulative and
> brain washing.  Moreover, our schools are full of such garbage techniques.
> 
> We've all heard how T.V. is geared to the 6th grade mind, and now Omni
> wants us to worship the thoughts and dillusions of the same frame of
> reference. (so does Dan Rather)  :-)
> 
> It is not so bad, *assuming* one is educated enough to catch all the
> crap, but lately, crap is all that is fed, (in many circles of influence) 
> so some have become used to eating it, and have taken to recommending it
> to their friends as Gospel.  
> 
> And we wonder why American products and morale are down.. Some of us take
> pride in what we do, the rest seem not to care about anything but money.
> 
> And the rest of us/life/truth/reality be damned.

	One man's opinion: there are interesting and interesting mental
tools, of great value to those that possess them and to their society,
that simply will not pass through an Average Daily Attendance:Grade Point 
Average:Multiple Choice filter. 

	In particular, interrelationships between pieces of knowledge 
or judgements about pieces of knowledge seem to be missing...

	It is time and past time we stole back our memetic heritage
from the tenured high-school teachers (horse laugh, no smiley).

(Followups to alt.flame, I'm getting off the sci.misc point here...)

	Luv,
		Ed