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To: Oblomov who wrote (77429)	4/8/2008 8:25:55 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 116555

I did a lot of subsitute teaching as well as high school teaching when I was young. I saw no dogma. I saw mediocrity. I saw pre exisential primitive conformity. I saw lots of lazyness and teachers working simply for money with no interest in leaarning whatsoever. But no dogma. Teachers pretty much taught what they believed and the subject matter pretty much included the entire spectrum of human knowledge and the state of our cultural evolution at the time i.e the human condition. In a way this is best. Better sloppy, but wide open mediocrity than neat dogmatic conformity to a single belief system! In the theory of government there is a concept called "constructive conservatism". What this means is when Nixon tried to undermine the constitution of the united states according Henry Steel Commenger (one of the greatest historians) he failed because governement was to messy and complex for him to take apart and undermine. Look at what those children are indoctrinated in, in those middle east muslim religous schools. Give me free mediocrity any day of the year. Our species is at the very beginning of a serious cultural evolution. My own feeling is that it has encountered 4 or 5 milestones: Settleing down to Farming and language 10/15,000 years ago. The great ancient Greeks (350 BC) almost hit critical mass, but were annilated before they could evolove a sophisticated civilzation. I love the ancient Greeks! The Republic by Plato was sooooo profound and to think he wrote it over 2,000 years ago. The dark ages. The age of enlightenment. Democracy. And then the 60's, the beginning of worldwide existential thought which is the true door to freedom of thought and action. Public schools guarantee progressive thinking because their only fault is in the ineptitude of the teachers. The good, the bad and the ugly. But little dogma. The scourge of real truth. And the value of college of course is that usually students are inroduced and forced to read the wise men and women of the entire world, of all cultrues, not just one point of view. Give me a vigorous public education system any day of the year.