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To: Don Lloyd who wrote (5040)	1/5/2002 4:05:53 AM
From: Don Lloyd	Respond to of 13056

nypost.com "MUSEUM IN BIZARRE BID TO WRECK BUILDING By JOHN LEHMANN January 4, 2002 -- A New York museum is trying to kick out the owner and tenants of newly restored apartments on the Lower East Side - so it can spend $2 million in taxpayer money to convert the building into "historic" tenements. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum on Orchard Street has struck a preliminary agreement with the state to condemn the neighboring five-story brick building - even though the owners have just completed a multimillion-dollar refurbishment. The building, at 99 Orchard St., houses 15 apartments, which are fetching $1,650 a month in rent, and an acclaimed Chinese restaurant, Congee Village Restaurant. But under the museum's plan - which is being supported by the Empire State Development Corp. - the museum would acquire the building by eminent domain and use it to expand its facilities and tours showcasing immigrant life in the 1800s. ..." Regards, Don

To: Don Lloyd who wrote (5040)	1/5/2002 10:52:51 PM
From: Don Lloyd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13056

The Joy of Freedom: An Economist's Odyssey by David R. Henderson an excerpt on government compulsory education - "[John Gatto]...when the United States abandoned freedom of education in the nineteenth century, it explicitly adopted the Prussian system and for the same reasons Prussia adopted it: to teach obedience and limit learning.... ..."The whole system ... would result in obedient and subordinate graduates, properly respectful of arbitrary orders." Here is what Gatto says of the famous philosopher John Dewey, a fan of the Prussian system: Dewey said that the great mistake of traditional pedagogy has been to make reading and writing the bulk of early schoolwork. He advocated that the phonics method of teaching reading be abandoned and replaced by the whole-word method, not because the latter was more efficient (he admitted it was less efficient), but because reading hard books produces independent thinkers, thinkers who cannot be socialized very easily...." Regards, Don