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To: JohnM who wrote (201033)	9/12/2012 12:47:38 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542043

<<The thesis of this post, koan, is about converting students--read Camus, one is converted. Good teachers, it's my view, don't do that. You teach Camus or Shakespeare or whomsoever who have definite philosophies of life by way of critical thinking. You use them to get students to examine how they already think about their life not to convert them. And in the process of getting them to do that thinking you hope to impart some critical thinking tools.>. I agree 100% with the above. I have never tried to convert anyone to anything. I always just wanted them to pursue learning. I am in the camp that believes in KDP (knowledge directed Perception). Perception is like a cone. As you learn more, your perception (minds eye) takes in a larger and larger abstract picture of reality. I do disagree with your thesis below. I keep asking someone to tell me a contemporary conservative intellectual with a viable philosophy. No one ever does. Except Brooks-g. Look at the clown car of nominee's they presented to the nation. Half cretins and have nuts. The reason the Republicans are falling all over themselves is that there is no there, there, so they have to defend myths and now that the worlds eyes are focused on them, people are starting to see, en masse, the emperor has no cloths. But the liberals have boat loads of intellectuals, hard core intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and Paul Krugman, that can defend their philosophy with ease, because it is a philosophy that takes into account the healthy survival of society, the species, and the planet. That is where the liberal philosophy leads as it is based on KDP, on facts and reason, not myth and script the right wing use, as I have said before. Critical thinking doesn't lead, per se, to liberalism. I read more than a few extremely well done, fairly conservative papers during my time in higher ed that reflected careful thought.