tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4256367009985298221.post6387033921944833407..comments2024-03-23T13:16:37.006-07:00Comments on Hawaiian libertarian: Valedictorian: "I have successfully shown that I was the best slave."Keoni Galthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00842553742723239151noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4256367009985298221.post-3066573835819453732010-08-19T00:44:55.205-07:002010-08-19T00:44:55.205-07:00I can only say "bring back the Trivium"!...I can only say "bring back the Trivium"!<br /><br />Logic, Rhetoric and Grammar, everything else comes later.Duncan Idahonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4256367009985298221.post-66602741303311923282010-08-11T22:35:07.467-07:002010-08-11T22:35:07.467-07:00This was a smart girl.
Too bad I can't marry...This was a smart girl. <br /><br />Too bad I can't marry her, I could set up a nation with a smart chick like her on my side.<br /><br />From the outset, I'm neither Rightist or Leftist, I view both the left and right as limiting perspectives. <br /><br />It's my opinion, and you are free to agree diagree or spin in circles, that a larger game is afoot and the issues can be, and should be, looked at from broader and higher vantage points. But people like to gather in groups and apply categories to others.<br /><br />No offense Anonymous, but your crack about critical thinking and leftists misses the point. <br /><br />Good god man, every critical thinking course I ever took taught reason and logic, granted there was a left weighted social bias, but having had access to a large quantity of old textbooks from my mother's high school and college days, I can say that the books of that age also reflected the dominant social biases of that more conservative age.<br /><br />It is popular in leftist circles (and god knows I've floated through many) to reflexively condemn things as sounding right wing when the consensus objected to them. So too in Right wing circles, especially certain ones in particular, it is fashionable to simply semantically bomb questionable thoughts as "leftist" and PC" as if no further thought or analysis is expected.<br /><br />John Taylor Gatto is a critical thinker, I don't think he fits easily in the left or right - what I can say is that his thinking is square American in the best of senses, Gatto could have been born in 1840 or 1940.<br /><br />True, that much of what leftist pedagogy teaches as critical thinking is simply active subversion.<br /><br />However, and this is what so many right wingers fail to understand, is that what they want to go back to, is simply one other side of the same failed coin.<br /><br />Again, no offense.<br /><br />The modern Right and Left come from the division of the French assembly into the Gerondians and Jacobeans. It's two wings on the same damn bird. <br /><br />What I admire about folks like John Taylor Gatto is that they are able to just step out of the whole left/right dialectic and talk about real values, and real issues. <br /><br />I would write more, but then I'd just beat the subject to deathKamal S.http://kali-yuga.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4256367009985298221.post-74601023362508188962010-08-06T07:17:54.323-07:002010-08-06T07:17:54.323-07:00Great val. speech.Great val. speech.Conan the Cimmerianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17649363195230989320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4256367009985298221.post-72209344486635049202010-08-06T06:14:25.822-07:002010-08-06T06:14:25.822-07:00Ha! @ Hughman
Well we know for the most part just...Ha! @ Hughman<br /><br />Well we know for the most part just how dysfunctional and useless the Cult of Education is, but once again it's become such an integral and accepted part of the host that I see no way to change or overthrow it barring a major cultural and social upheaval. Too many individuals and groups have serious $$$$ invested in the teetering system as it stands. Because, it's an excellent money-making bootcamp which churns out masses of obedient, Kool-Aid drinking troops willing to prop up the existing corporacracy. In fact, I don't have a problem (well I do really) with this, but what I do have a problem with is the usurpation of individuality and creativity. I wish the educational system would operate on 2 levels. On the superficial level, yes, it would supply the necessary skill and social set for people who are happy to join and perpetuate the Hive. On the other hand, it would also allow those who wish to opt out from this paradigm to fulfill their unorthodox intellectual drives. At the University level, I suppose it can be argued this may exist, but K-12 is a horrible mess of one-dimensional utilitarian goals, courtesy of self-interested parents who think they know what's best for their children (and society).An Unmarried manhttp://www.phoenixism.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4256367009985298221.post-65201892030162881122010-08-06T03:50:21.854-07:002010-08-06T03:50:21.854-07:00"Critical thinking" is the Leftist code ..."Critical thinking" is the Leftist code phrase for "uncritically accepting Leftist attitudes, values, behaviors, and beliefs".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4256367009985298221.post-25757880359344992202010-08-06T03:47:24.497-07:002010-08-06T03:47:24.497-07:00Talk about pissing on everyone's parade!Talk about pissing on everyone's parade!Hughmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4256367009985298221.post-72707365899243803272010-08-05T19:56:59.988-07:002010-08-05T19:56:59.988-07:00My parents, being a bit different than standard is...My parents, being a bit different than standard issue parents and delightfully oblivious to the pressure to be the parents of the smartest kid in school, once asked me, after I complained about working hard and still making a B or something, "But did you learn?" <br /><br />I replied that I had learned and that's why the B, with its 'not quite' stench was so disheartening. "You're there to learn. That's what is important. Not the grade."Ulysseshttp://hiddenleaves.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com