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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Awareness by Anthony DeMello. Everybody should read that book at least once. |
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SPINOZA
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Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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Philosophy should definitely be taught in schools, as it is so clearly related to the sciences and usually much more interesting. See Jostein Gaarder's 'Sophie's World' as an example of an introduction to the subject applicable to teens.
Better drugs education should occur too, since all the evidence suggests that current and previous decades' strategies have resulted in unprecedented numbers of drug-takers and record quantities of drugs being sold on the black market. |
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manlyboy
Joined: 01 Aug 2004
Location: Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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| How to resent a fallacy more than an insult. |
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ChimpumCallao
Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: your mom
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:08 am Post subject: |
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The best teacher I ever had was my high school History teacher. He was a communist..................
A good man and a great teacher, but he got transferred to the sticks due to the machinations of my high school nemesis and her mother on the PTA, because of his political convictions. That in itself was a valuable lesson. |
so the lover of all things state, central, and government was done in by the very things he supported.
Here's what school didnt teach us that they should
how to balance a checkbook
how the banking system works
how taxes work
what is interest and how to invest properly
managing your savings and avoiding debt
what vocations and degrees are actually viable and competitive in the market.
why equity yields higher returns than just saving money in a bank...etc etc.
what is inflation/deflation- why it happens
what is the central bank and how it works...
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i can't believe i left UNIVERSITY and had little idea what a morgage was.
The OP is about the last thing we should learn in school- more BS archaic culture that has nothing to do with how we function in the world today.
Like Good WIll Hunting said, that can be learned from late charges at the local library. |
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venus
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: Near Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting.
In the UK High Schools will no longer teach either The Holocaust or about The Crusades in history, because they 'might offend someone.' - quote from story in the Independant.
The middle aged, middle class, berkish wallies that run the country have finally lost touch with reality.
History will bacome a fairy tale where everyhting was wonderful and good and nobody got upset.
Pathetic. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| manlyboy wrote: |
| How to resent a fallacy more than an insult. |
You IDIOT little grasshopper! 
| venus wrote: |
History will bacome a fairy tale where everyhting was wonderful and good and nobody got upset.
Pathetic. |
NEWSPEAK? DOUBLETHINK?
Ever read Orwell?  |
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venus
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: Near Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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| igotthisguitar wrote: |
| manlyboy wrote: |
| How to resent a fallacy more than an insult. |
You IDIOT little grasshopper!
| venus wrote: |
History will bacome a fairy tale where everyhting was wonderful and good and nobody got upset.
Pathetic. |
NEWSPEAK? DOUBLETHINK?
Ever read Orwell? |
No. I own a copy and know the overall ideas, but couldn't get past a page of his dull prose. S'pose it's one of those that I'll get round to some day...
The movie with John Hurt was fantastic though. That torture scene with the rats in the cage / face mask really hits hard huh? |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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| venus wrote: |
S'pose it's one of those that I'll get round to some day...
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Every responsible citizen's SACRED duty.
Yes, Virginia, you'd better believe there IS a WAR |
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VirginIslander
Joined: 24 May 2006
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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1. The relationship between man and his technology. The impact of technology on culture. The printing press, the car, the internet, etc...
Oral, Written and Electronic cultures. How information is affected and altered by various mediums. Why some of us have watched more television in one day than our great-grandparents did in their entire lives, and how that has affected us, positively and negatively.
2. Foreign languages. All American students should start learning a second language in elementary school, and a third in middle school.
3. How to speak and write clearly, effectively and concisely. Less emphasis on poetry and early esoteric writing within the general population, who will never ever use poetry while working at Wal-Mart, and more emphases on using language correctly. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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| venus wrote: |
Interesting.
In the UK High Schools will no longer teach either The Holocaust or about The Crusades in history, because they 'might offend someone.' - quote from story in the Independant.
The middle aged, middle class, berkish wallies that run the country have finally lost touch with reality.
History will bacome a fairy tale where everyhting was wonderful and good and nobody got upset.
Pathetic. |
I thought so too, but a little reading between the lines revealed that the Holocaust has non-compulsory status but will become compulsory (see the final line of this Guardian article: http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2048161,00.html ).
Teachers find teaching the holocaust to a class dominated by Muslim children (a tiny minority of schools) counter-productive and difficult to manage. Rather than educate, it provided a forum for airing prejudices and bigotry. One school refused to continue teaching it because it did more harm than good. The Holocaust however is expected to become compulsory in the new Curriculum. So, contrary to what the Right Wing papers have said, the British government, by making the Holocaust compulsory, are forcing Muslim citizens to examine this topic. The Blair govt tried to make Holocaust denial a criminal offence in 2000 but it was dropped because of issues with freedom of speech. Germany is pushing to make Holocaust denial a criminal offence all over the EU. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| the value of truth is instrumental or at most contextual, not inherent or primary |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 12:02 am Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
| the value of truth is instrumental or at most contextual, not inherent or primary |
Teach exactly why 'context' is the most important word in the english language. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:47 am Post subject: |
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| JMO wrote: |
| Teach exactly why 'context' is the most important word in the english language. |
Yes, context & form.
http://www.redicecreations.com |
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