[lit-ideas] Re: What the Tortoise said to Achilles
- From: Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 18:05:18 -0600
Yesterday on my way into the gym to swim laps I was stopped by a fellow
soliciting petition signatures. He asked if I would sign a petition to
"get the St. Louis law enforcement out of the hands of the government and
back into the hands of the people". I'm afraid I laughed somewhat
caustically and said in a not entirely sotto voce that I was absolutely not
going to sign something to privatize law enforcement. The way he phrased
it, I suspect half the people signing thought it sounded like a pretty cool
idea.
Julie Krueger
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It isn't just students. Here's a slogan from the tea party retirement age
> set: "Keep your government hands off of my Medicare." They obviously have
> no clue that Medicare *is* the government. It would be interesting to know
> what people think Medicare and Social Security are. It's been suggested
> that education is deliberately lobbied against, sabotaged behind the scenes
> by the 1% to maintain a plutocracy. Obviously the Founding Fathers
> anticipated some version of keep your government hands off of my Medicare
> when they created the electoral college. I can't remember the actual
> statistic from Susan Jacoby and can't find it, but something like 30% of
> high school students think the Civil War was in the 20th century.
>
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/get-your-goddamn-governme_b_252326.html
>
>
> *From:* Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
> *To:* lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 31, 2012 7:14 PM
> *Subject:* [lit-ideas] What the Tortoise said to Achilles
>
> Excerpt from a comment in the daily
> InsideHigherEd.com<http://insidehighered.com/>
> .
>
> 'The so-called "No Child Left Behind" policies have given us a crop of
> students nearly incapable of drawing conclusions on their
> own--so to teach critical thinking, we have to teach what thinking is
> first.'
>
> Robert Paul,
> caught in a syllogistic web
>
>
>
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