Posts by Farmer Green
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to mark taslov,
True, but the cane is no longer in use , and the school in question no longer has priests as "masters".
Still teaching the same bullshit in "Christian Doctrine", probably. -
The passage above was lifted from this discussion of Karl Ege's book An Evident Need of our Times :-
https://lilipoh.com/articles/a-need-still-evident-karl-ege-and-the-future-of-education/
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Invariably the “sticking” point in regard to substance liberalisation centres around – “what about the children? ”
Usually the answer given is “education”, which does not, today , mean what the etymology of the word might suggest . There is schooling and there is education.
” . . . a robust foundation of creative and practical work to bring balance and harmony to the developing child, from which intellectual knowledge and understanding could naturally arise.
Perhaps Thoreau said it most matter-of-factly, in his little diatribe on the effectiveness of a curriculum in which hand-work and head-work are deeply, and meaningfully integrated:“But,” says one, “you do not mean that the students should go work with their hands instead of their heads?”
I do not mean that exactly, but I mean something which he might think a good deal like that; I mean that they should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end.How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? . . . .Which would have advanced the most at the end of a month,—the boy who had made his own jackknife from the ore which he had dug and smelted, reading as much as would be necessary for this, – or the boy who had attended the lectures on metallurgy at the Institute in the mean while, and had received a Rogers’ penknife from his father? ”
(Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854) -
The things that they used to write . . . :-)
https://libertygibbert.com/2010/10/31/libertarianism-and-drug-liberalization/#comment-13318
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Hard News: The Greens' pretty good new…, in reply to Rob S,
Are we as a country capable of having an adult conversation about drugs, their harms and all the other nuance in regard of them.
Not just pot but A class to alcohol.In the distant past , a group of "libertarians" tried to have a conversation about this ; it blew the blog to smithereens. Yours truly was partly responsible.
Education(about drugs) was to the fore :-https://libertygibbert.com/2010/10/31/libertarianism-and-drug-liberalization/#comment-13344
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"Education will be provided on the harmful e ects (sic) of heavy and prolonged usage," (get well soon R.)
The " truth" will be available in all schools. Haha.
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to andin,
not a society many thought the young would inherit.
I’m sure that the “guardians” of the society that we kiddies of the sixties inherited , expressed similar views.
That did not stop us from turning the whole thing on its head ; the young of today have the same opportunity to rock the boat.
I attended a catholic boys boarding school for five years in the sixties ; it needed a
” refresh” and it sure as hell got one, at some cost to those of us who endured the rattan cane that was the main weapon of the “old guard”.
But there was no chance that they were going to break us ; indestructible youth :-) -
Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Dennis Frank,
consumers with many different tastes.
"Reduced"; "Special"; "etc".
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Dennis Frank,
community as a survival strategy.
That meme has been around for a little while.
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Dennis Frank,
Ecospirituality was an accepted part of the green movement long ago – probably can trace it back
Taoism.