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Pastimes : Neocon's Seminar Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gao seng who wrote (510)	5/9/2001 11:01:10 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1112

I am not sure how you are translating a regard for language and art into the spirit of the buffalo. Education is the means of cultural transmission, both formal and informal. My son knows a lot about rock music because I taught him, and he started reading and listening on his own. He knows more than most kids his age about art because I have been hauling him to museums since he was a tot (less than he would if he had paid a little more attention). He knows more about geography than most kids because I bought him a couple of map games and some elementary atlases when he was young, and used to play quiz games about places. He knows how to behave in a restaurant, more or less, because I have taken him, shown him by example, and admonished him. Then there is school..... I do not think that civilization arises primarily for survival, but to ennoble mankind. It starts out setting the highest class apart, and works its way down as material circumstances permit, and as the social hierarchy becomes less rigid and exclusive. We cannot exactly exclude things because they happen to be shared with disreputable beings. Should we stop walking because Stalin walked?