Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Education Message-ID: <312@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Sep-84 14:56:56 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.312 Posted: Tue Sep 18 14:56:56 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 09:34:18 EDT Organization: UW Primate Center Lines: 45 >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