Joe Jackson (shoeless@erols.com)
Fri, 4 Feb 2000 17:09:13 -0500
> Dan -
> I think she has a valid point - how you go about freeing the education
> system is critical. To use your analogy, Lincoln's goal was
> excellent, but
> his methods were half-baked, involving a bloody war, the economic collapse
> of the South, the creation of a new elitist class of Northerners,
> and a new
> underclass of Southerners.
>
> The effects of all this have lingered to this day in the form of
> racial hatred.
>
> Lincoln had no plan for the emancipated slaves, but left them
> without skills
> or education in a world where no jobs were available.
>
> Was it better to starve to death but be free? Quite likely, but it wasn't
> necessary.
So, I'm like confused. Are you saying that the unapologetically honest
portayal of our opinions will, in addition to possibly freeing some
students, cause a bloody war, the economic collapse of the South, the
creation of a new elitist class of Northerners, and a new underclass of
Southerners?
If you're not saying that, than are you saying we, as human beings,
shouldn't do what we think is best because it might have terrible
consequences? How can anyone, not having been there, say that Lincoln did
not make the best choices he could have with the information he had at the
time?
Is this a new sport - Monday-morning quarterbacking of the decisions heroic
historical figures made that may have had an influence on the colossal
cascading events of human history?
The way you go about freeing our educational system is by throwing it out
the window. I thought we had already established that.
?
-Joe J
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