[ExI] GOV - chilling

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 11:40 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> the UC system should require 2 classroom years in civics (with three
> recommended) to replace foreign language would be a breakthrough in public
> education.
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> spike
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> *​In my neck of the boonies, judging by the op-ed letters, which I always
> respond to, most people don't know that our country was founded on
> classical liberal principles and that none of the founding fathers was a
> conservative in any sense of that word.  To these people, liberal is a bad
> word.  So I suggest that political philosophy be taught as well.  I would
> add comparative religion as well, though getting a school board to agree on
> the contents is probably pie in the sky.  Need I add that sex be taught as
> well? Preferably in grammar school.  Frosty the Snowman in the core of the
> sun.  *
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​bill w​



> *liberal​*
> extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On Behalf
> Of *William Flynn Wallace
> *Subject:* [ExI] GOV - chilling
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> >…If ever the need for civics to be required in high school was evident,
> it's now…
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> Ja!  This last chaotic go-around was the best civics lesson Americans have
> ever enjoyed.
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> >…A PPP poll shows that 51% of Trump supporters think that the President
> should be able to overturn any judicial ruling he doesn't like…bill w
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> Fortunately for us, the US Constitution is written in such a way that a
> particular politician’s supporters opinion doesn’t matter.  Had his
> competitor won, I fear the portion of her supporters with that view would
> have been even higher than 51%.  Fortunately, the framers foresaw this and
> wrote the way they did.
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> BillW, I agree.  In California, we have a requirement that students
> applying for the state university system have studied a foreign language
> (not just any, but one on a prescribed list.)  It isn’t just a small amount
> of study required, but rather a huge investment in classroom time (2
> classroom years required, 3 recommended.)  This is in a time when ignorance
> of the US Constitution grows daily, while we are on the verge of practical
> realtime voice-recognition translation by cell phones.  So I agree:  the UC
> system should require 2 classroom years in civics (with three recommended)
> to replace foreign language would be a breakthrough in public education.
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> spike
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