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Saturday material
Feb. 5th, 2006 01:16 amA well-inspired bit from one of the many on the friends list has gotten me thinking about what I really believe in, or think I do. ( What do I believe? )
There's also other things for this entry. Like Roseanne Barr, puppets, and singing . Frightening. (Remember, it's also in my nature to put the serious and the silly together and see who makes sense out of it.) Although something that could be magnitude scarier is the teacher who caught flak for trying to introduce her first, second, and third graders to opera - admittedly, the video uses 'Faust' as the point of discussion. Thinking about what they could see on network television, however, Faust is tame. Still, I find this article reinforces the theory that many parents do not want the school system to provide an education. Rather, they wish it to be a holding space for children where ideas are not challenged and prevailing assumptions are not discussed as assumptions, but rather as facts. If it seems a bit harsh, it's because the schooling systems are not being used as they could be - there are other factors than parents impeding the educational process, yes, but schools already have enough difficulty as it is. Adding to their complications is not a recipe for success.
There are also these grit-your-teeth-and-snarl sorts of pieces, like keeping civil liberties positions vacant in the American government, combined with increased domestic surveillance. And for as much as we're wrangling over free speech and the Internet here, our corporations aren't really putting up much of a fight elsewhere. (Such things from Fox, of all places. Should I be surprised?) Another nice thing - as we find out, it's pretty easy to track someone's phone as a private citizen. Speaking of spying on people, it appears that quite a few of the people being spied on by the President are, well, innocent. Not so good when the expanded network doesn't catch anyone...
But there's better stuff, too, like the wand. The story's pretty nice, the ending is spot on, really. There's also a piece about making skeptics into better skeptics by getting them to research the things they're skeptical about scientifically. If that didn't make sense, try these painted-room illusions instead.
There's also other things for this entry. Like Roseanne Barr, puppets, and singing . Frightening. (Remember, it's also in my nature to put the serious and the silly together and see who makes sense out of it.) Although something that could be magnitude scarier is the teacher who caught flak for trying to introduce her first, second, and third graders to opera - admittedly, the video uses 'Faust' as the point of discussion. Thinking about what they could see on network television, however, Faust is tame. Still, I find this article reinforces the theory that many parents do not want the school system to provide an education. Rather, they wish it to be a holding space for children where ideas are not challenged and prevailing assumptions are not discussed as assumptions, but rather as facts. If it seems a bit harsh, it's because the schooling systems are not being used as they could be - there are other factors than parents impeding the educational process, yes, but schools already have enough difficulty as it is. Adding to their complications is not a recipe for success.
There are also these grit-your-teeth-and-snarl sorts of pieces, like keeping civil liberties positions vacant in the American government, combined with increased domestic surveillance. And for as much as we're wrangling over free speech and the Internet here, our corporations aren't really putting up much of a fight elsewhere. (Such things from Fox, of all places. Should I be surprised?) Another nice thing - as we find out, it's pretty easy to track someone's phone as a private citizen. Speaking of spying on people, it appears that quite a few of the people being spied on by the President are, well, innocent. Not so good when the expanded network doesn't catch anyone...
But there's better stuff, too, like the wand. The story's pretty nice, the ending is spot on, really. There's also a piece about making skeptics into better skeptics by getting them to research the things they're skeptical about scientifically. If that didn't make sense, try these painted-room illusions instead.
