flink@umcp-cs.UUCP (11/30/83)
Larry Welsch thinks "The public should not pay for or support the teaching of dogmas and/or propaganda." Rotsa Ruck. What you are proposing is somewhere between impossible and inconceivable (unless you abolish public-supported schools, but you didn't want to do that.) Even if you could succeed, I'm not sure I'd want you to. You seem to want to inspire a kind of cognitive relativism toward all subject areas. Reminds me of a story a friend of mine told me about her friend with Unitarian parents. "They won't tell me anything; I'm always supposed to make up my own mind, or believe whatever I want to. How can I make up my own mind if I have no basis to decide on?" I can sympathize. Often it seems you can learn more from an advocate of one point of view than one who's trying to be "neutral". --Paul Torek, umcp-cs!flink