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To: KLP who wrote (196126)	6/30/2010 9:06:23 AM
From: ManyMoose	1 Recommendation Respond to of 225578

I agree with your point, and it illuminates how important--not import, but VITAL--it is for our schools to teach love of learning, how to learn, and how to be skeptical of facts that seem to support your point of view or position... Because they might be false facts, put in place to mislead you. Instead, from what I've been reading and hearing, our schools are deeply into skewing the facts and making the young people learn things that are not necessarily true. And kids are exposed to false information in their entertainment all the time. Many of them learned about rain forests from "Ferngully, The Last Rain Forest." And many of us adults learned about Indians from "Dances With Wolves." Sure they're great stories, but they aren't the truth. The schools need to teach the necessity of a "trip to the library to check the Periodical Index and other materials" and do it on the internet before accepting the first thing they see. I've been burned enough times by things that rang true to me because they reinforced my point of view, but turn out false. I've even been trapped by Scrappleface.