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From: bralick@cs.psu.edu (Will Bralick)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Education
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Date: 28 Dec 89 20:09:25 GMT
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In article <7520@hubcap.clemson.edu> billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:
| From me, responding to Will: 
| >    Courses on parenting are a good example of how educators could
| >    offer courses which might well be taken VOLUNTARILY, and further
| >    efforts by educators along these lines are to be encouraged.

With which I agreed.

|    In fact, Will, I'll gladly agree that courses on parenting (or
|    the demonstration of equivalent knowledge by examination) should
|    be required of parents; however, any such requirement must be 
|    universally applicable to the entire population of parents, 
|    probably as a precondition for ever gaining parental custody.  

Kind of like a cattle breeder's certificate, eh?

A real statist, aren't we?  While it isn't a technical journal, 
perhaps you have read _Brave New World_ by Aldous Huxley.  How 
you gonna keep then from breeding, Bill?  

Perhaps you just fired this one off without thinking it through 
(I hope so, anyway).  It looks like it comes from a mechanistic, 
utilitarian, shallow view of man -- the product of narrow thinking. 


Regards,

-- 
Will Bralick                          |  ... when princes think more of
     bralick@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu       |  luxury than of arms, they lose
     bralick@gondor.cs.psu.edu        |  their state.
with disclaimer;  use disclaimer;     |             - Niccolo Machiavelli