[lit-ideas] Re: What the Tortoise said to Achilles
- From: "Veronica Caley" <molleo1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 03:34:13 -0500
Nor do many of these older people and Tea Partiers know that Medicare is
probably the most efficiently administered program ever. The administrative
cost is 3%. Can't provide site as all I get when I search is companies wanting
to sell insurance to supplement Medicare. Also it's about 3 AM.
Veronica
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From: Andy
To: lit-ideas
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 6:58 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: What the Tortoise said to Achilles
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.
'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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