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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Education
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Date: Tue, 18-Sep-84 14:56:56 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 18 14:56:56 1984
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>See parent article for Paul DuBois turning "1st grade education in today's
>world" into "educated man"--and then defending it...but then:
>
>Way back when, someone had said...
>> % > > The people of the Bible would be somewhere around a 1st grade
>> % > > education in todays world,  So how do you tell a 1st grader about
>> ...
>> So let's go back to my example.  Compare Moses to a "1st grade
>> education in today's world".  How does he stack up?  What do they
>> learn in 1st grade?  Reading, writing, simple arithmetic, etc.
>> Moses could read and write.  From what he wrote, it's clear he
>> understood arithmetic.  Etc.
>
>So Paul (>) is now arguing AGAINST the old article by pointing out how
>Moses has various first-grade skills...which is nicely in favor of the
>original statement.  I feel like I'm in hyperspace; I see people taking
>opposite sides and agreeing; then I see people taking the same side and
>arguing.

I'm not arguing against my old article.  I'm attempting to
accommodate your demands.  You didn't like it when I 'turned
"1st grade education in today's world" into "educated man"',
so I then compared Moses to '1st grade education in today's
world'.  And you don't like that either.  C'mon, Dick!  Jump
back!

>Well, ("open letter" to Paul) I was trying to point out where you weren't
>paying attention to what someone else was saying.  You still aren't.  If

You are?

>it's attacking your beliefs to ask you not to intentionally misinterpret
>the other side in a discussion, you've indeed got a strange belief system,
>and you probably should be accustomed to having it "threatened" (though
>"challenged" is a better term).

Actually, Dick, "threatened" was the word YOU used.  Go back and
read your own articles.
-- 
Paul DuBois		{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois

"Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein
do I delight."
				Psalm 119:35