<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 11:40 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-7442930382316472564WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><u></u></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"></div><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14pt">the UC system should require 2 classroom years in civics (with three recommended) to replace foreign language would be a breakthrough in public education.</span><p></p><span class="gmail-HOEnZb" style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></font></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(136,136,136)">spike</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"></div> <u></u><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"></span></b></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><b>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. </b></div><p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-7442930382316472564WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"></span></b></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><b>liberal</b></div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"> extropy-chat [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@<wbr>lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] GOV - chilling<u></u><u></u></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">>…<span style="color:black">If ever the need for civics to be required in high school was evident, it's now</span>…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">Ja! This last chaotic go-around was the best civics lesson Americans have ever enjoyed.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">>…<span style="color:black">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</span>…<span style="color:black">bill w</span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">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.<span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></font></span></div></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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