flink@umcp-cs.UUCP (Paul V. Torek) (08/10/85)
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