Re: Try listening to the real ideas and ignore vitriolic attacks

What is Stepford?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cecilia Baader" <ceciliabaader@yahoo.com>
> Actually, one of my kids asked me the other day why I always wanted her to
> come up with her own arguments. Why couldn't I just tell her what I
> wanted to read? You see, Daniel, the problem in the average classroom
> isn't stifling creativity, it's fostering it. We live in a nation of
> Stepford children. And, the only way to avoid completing that cycle is to
> force people to not only think, but understand *why* they think it. And
> hopefully, they will be able to convince me, their reader, to think in a
> new way. Otherwise, you've got a bunch of parrots repeating the same
> tired arguments.
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Received on Tue Mar 11 08:32:26 2003