[lit-ideas] Re: None Dare Call It Reason

No, definitely not Alec Guinness. Can't remember The Ladykillers at present,
but
he was great in The Bridge over the River Kwai - but there's politics in that
so
we had better steer clear of it. He was marvellous in Lawrence of Arabia; hmm,
there's also some politicing going on in that film too ... Could it be that
only love stories and horror stories manage to escape the entaglements with the
political? Or is it that the political is ubiquitous across all domains of
contemporary life these days?

A couple of weeks ago I made a few dollars on a bet as to whether Claude Rains
ever co-starred with Peter O'Toole and, in a different movie, with Humphrey
Bogart. Many at the bar, young students, actually never heard of Claude Rains.
Some, but not most, had heard of O'Toole and/or Bogart. There's a lesson here
for all educators, to be sure. How to draw it is the essentially contentious
part. But one thing is clear: the future of our planet rests in what we do for
education. To bend a favourite maxim of Rorty's: get education right - i.e.,
instill in students the philosophical dispositions requisite for rational
deliberation and judgement - and the right politics will follow. All political
conflicts have their source in miseducation on these esential matters.

Running for President,

The Philosophers' Choice: Walter Casimir Okshevsky







Quoting Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Esteemed Volodya: a bit like E.G. Marshall...
> 
> 
> Alec Guinness in The Ladykillers?
> 
> 
> Sir or not, it's hard to forgive him for 
> participating in that horrible film script of The 
> Horse's Mouth.
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