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From: act@pur-phy.UUCP (Alex C. Tselis)
Newsgroups: net.origins,net.politics
Subject: Re: Education of creationists' children
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Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 23:06:09 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  1 23:06:09 1984
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>   What about history texts and teachers that
> belittle or ignore the contributions of large groups of people or
> exaggerate others?  (One of my most vivid childhood memories of
> school is the fit my very conservative father threw over a
> composition I wrote outlining the glorious accomplishments of FDR as
> taught to us in school).  How many of us never heard a teacher
> express a political opinion, directly or indirectly?  My advice to
> concerned parents is to focus on teaching people HOW to think, not
> WHAT to think.
> 
This point about FDR is a very interesting one.  I long ago learned that the
reason General Lee gave General Grant his sword was so that General Grant 
could polish it for him!  Another illusion shattered!!