Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!flink From: flink@umcp-cs.UUCP (Paul V. Torek) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: IGOTCHA! Message-ID: <1175@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 17:12:27 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.1175 Posted: Fri Aug 9 17:12:27 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 05:52:13 EDT References:<1559-61> <1566> <488@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: flink@maryland.UUCP (Mr. Whipple) Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 20 Keywords: Re: No wonder! In article <488@brl-tgr.ARPA> matt@brl-tgr.ARPA (Matthew Rosenblatt ) writes: >A school can't help imparting values to its students. If parents pay >taxes or tuition to support schools, you can't blame them for wanting >the schools to impart THEIR values. It's not that young people today >are "willfully stupid," Mr. Arndt. It's that they have not been getting >anything like a "neutral education." The principle of liberalism, the >idea that you can do anything you like as long as you don't harm someone >else, has been taught in schools for 30 years. Ah, but that's the RIGHT principle, the right value; that's why we teach it in the schools! (I don't really believe that, but I just couldn't resist! Wait, I know:) But Matt, the reason we don't teach THEIR (fundamentalist parents') values in school is because they're wrongheaded! There, now I've succeeded in antagonizing him, without having to lie! --The insufferable iconoclast, Paul V Torek