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To: Dayuhan who wrote (20634)	8/6/2001 2:53:49 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) of 82486

Effective decision making requires both reasoning skill and information; one without the other is not going to do much good. There is no way to teach anything successfully without the desire to learn. Aristotle would be of no use as a tutor to someone that did not want to learn. There is a great deal that schools can do to build reasoning skill, and there is certainly a great deal they can do to... I don't disagree with you but State intervention for the most part is a dismal failure. Do we really want the state to make life and death decisions on the citizenry based for the most part on whatever consensus thinking is in vogue. Strangely this consensus thinking is never up to the second, it is always changing, so what will get written up as gospel changes the moment it gets published. Young people get the feeling that nothing can ever be known with certainty, which is not true. The true aim of those who promote consensus thinking is to sell the idea that nothing can ever be known with certainty. Do you recall Dr. Spock? How about anti-nausea drugs for expectant mothers, where the trade off was no nausea for a baby born with flippers for limbs? The consensus thinking in vogue at the time was that a conscientious up to the second mother popped anti-nausea pills and read Dr. Spock. provide the information that can enable young people to make accurate risk/reward assessments. I don't like to hear those Capitalistic comments from you. In a government of elected aristocrats the spirit of Nobless Oblige must prevail. I.e. senseless acts of altruism performed without any thought for reward. Any risk/reward assessment introduced to a young mind may lead to a dangerous spiral of self-esteem, perhaps even virtue.

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