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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
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Posted: Fri Aug  9 17:12:27 1985
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Reply-To: flink@maryland.UUCP (Mr. Whipple)
Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
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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