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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (241247)	3/23/2002 2:04:17 PM
From: 10K a day	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Yeah...you'r probably right Karen....I think Kids are keeping their heads down ...in a sense like the 60's ...but I think as new leaders emerge...This administration better change or be prepared to look like an Ass.,....

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (241247)	3/23/2002 4:48:47 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769667

I believe the conclusion quoted from MICHIKO KAKUTANI's article is faulty. If "relativism" were the intellectual lode stone by which today's students were educated... than doesn't it follow that they would be more inclined to see and accept multiple points of view (a 'diversity' of views), rather than less inclined? Someone "reluct to engage in impassioned debate" could perhaps be seen as either unsure of the positions they hold, and thus unwilling to defend them... or else as rigidly over-sure of the positions they hold, and therefore unwilling to even dispute the issue, so sure are they of their correctness. What "someone unwilling to debate" is unlikely to be though, is one raised to think relativisticly, comfortable with seeing multiple points of view. I would suggest that if "students today tend to be more respectful of authority than they used to be, and more reticent about public disputation" it is unlikely to be because of 'relativistic' teaching... but because of some other factor.