"The basic function of all education, even in the most traditional sense, is to increase the survival (cont) http://tl.gd/777il2
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"The tendency seems to be for most 'educational' systems, from patterns of training in 'primitive' tribal (cont) http://tl.gd/777k3janderscj
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@anderscj but tell Postman et.al that educational tendency about which they speak is a problem for western society: what does that tell us?
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"What we are saying is that 'selective forgetting' is necessary for survival." Postman & Weingartneranderscj
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"students [of the old education] who endure it come out as passive, acquiescent, dogmatic, intolerant, (cont) http://tl.gd/7786eianderscj
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"students [of the old education] who endure it come out as passive, acquiescent, dogmatic, intolerant, ..."
The same thing can happen to students who endure liberal educations, as long as we're allowing politics to enter the fray.
Certainly P&W did the moment they inserted "conservative" into their quote.
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