From: David MOREY (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 02 2004 - 19:57:02 GMT
Hi Poot
School was a wash out for me, but at 40 I have
gone on to discover some real intellectual challenges, so keep going...
regards
David M
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt poot" <mattpoot@hotmail.com>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 6:21 AM
Subject: MD Re: Do we all need philosophy?
> to continue my subject of post, in a completely different part. I missed
> this previous post, which is why im replying now (I apologize).
>
> --Hi
>
> Hard to get philosophically sophisticated without reading philosophy.
> And what is read in schools is a public not private matter.
> Do you advocate philosophy in schools or not?
> I take 'as many types of books' as implying yes.
> I would prefer that we were more ambitious in schools
> and did more hard books and also science and the philosophy of science.
>
> DM
>
> -=*PO0T*=- DId you recently come from the schooling 'system' Dave? Having
> recently graduated from highschool a year ago, after 14 years in public
> education system(i did go to catholic school up until gr.2), I could not
> agree with you more wholly.
> I will explain with my own experiences:
>
>
> (from ontario). I have found that I was not challenged nearly enough. In
> the first 6 grades, what do they teach here? long division and
> multiplication tables? basic geography? some SUPER basic french? Not to
> rush childhood, but this is a point in life where the human brain can
absorb
> incredible amounts of knowledge, and really mentally develop themselves,
> building a foundation. My belief is that these years of just cruising
> through school with straight a+ grades. Grades dont even matter.....I
just
> knew so much more than they were teaching me. And what do they do with
the
> fountain of attention kids can give when their interested ? Well, they
> decided to ....well, I dont know what they decided to do, but it sure as
> hell didn't benefit me.
>
> Then, after thoroughly boring me to death with the same, mundane FACTS,
year
> after year , after year, what is left? I skipped a lot (i mean alot[as Im
> sure many of you can understand]) of my final 2 years of highschool,
because
> , well what they teach, and the way they teach it is just one thing, and
one
> thing only (no duality here) ----stupid!
>
> When I look at the life of persons such as Pirsig, and even some of those
> else I encounter personally, it leaves me feeling...well....it leaves me
> feeling sort of inferior(the word[as usual] isnt exactly what I mean).
Not
> just the fact that he was in university when 14, but just the richness of
> experience. And what scares me, is in comparison to him, I have lived a
> life less rich of experience, and I have a lot more compared with those my
> age around me.
>
>
> Anyways, I should stop rambling
>
>
> Poot, Sincerely
>
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