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To quote Philip Pullman and Archbishop Rowan Williams... Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 09/03/2011 02:23:51 AM
Pullman: "I think it depends on your view of education: whether you think that the true end and purpose of education is to help children grow up, compete and face the economic challenges of a global environment that we're going to face in the 21st century, or whether you think it's to do with helping them see that they are the true heirs and inheritors of the riches - the philosophical, the artistic, the scientific, the literary riches - of the whole world. If you believe in setting children's minds alive and ablaze with excitement and passion or whether it's a matter of filling them with facts and testing on them. It depends on your vision of education - and I know which one I'd go for."

Williams: "I think we're entirely at one on that, I must say."
"We feel safe when we read what we recognise, what does not challenge our way of thinking.... a steady acceptance of pre-arranged patterns leads to the inability to question what we are told."
~Camilla

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Have you all heard about the Northwestern University Sex Toy Demonstration? Danu - 05/03/2011 01:20:06 AM 1555 Views
Random thoughts posted about it the other day Stephen - 05/03/2011 01:25:22 AM 814 Views
Why would this be inappropriate? The lecture was on human sexuality. *NM* Aeryn - 05/03/2011 04:19:46 AM 381 Views
If this was at my school, I would feel...weird. Fox and Ravens - 05/03/2011 05:22:15 AM 884 Views
It was optional. So the mortified students presumably weren't confronted with it. *NM* Ghavrel - 05/03/2011 08:02:31 AM 362 Views
Isn't education supposed to expand your mind? Aeryn - 06/03/2011 07:38:02 PM 862 Views
No it is supposed to fill it with knowledge random thoughts - 07/03/2011 04:02:17 PM 1089 Views
To quote Philip Pullman and Archbishop Rowan Williams... Ghavrel - 09/03/2011 02:23:51 AM 1066 Views
I think it's a pretty valid point of contention whether Darth_Katie - 09/03/2011 01:41:23 PM 1015 Views
This.... Urza - 09/03/2011 07:44:03 PM 897 Views
Get fulfilled on your own dime random thoughts - 09/03/2011 02:03:43 PM 823 Views
The least surprising thing about this entire article Luke - 05/03/2011 04:40:50 AM 898 Views
Finally, someone at least had the guts to name the sex toy. A chainsaw cock. Tom - 05/03/2011 05:01:11 AM 977 Views
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Sounds like a rational proffesor *NM* Urza - 05/03/2011 05:31:11 AM 379 Views
The reaction would make sense if these were schoolchildren. Tim - 05/03/2011 09:02:13 AM 901 Views
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That would be a valid concern ranagrande - 06/03/2011 05:01:13 AM 846 Views
It remains a valid concern Isaac - 06/03/2011 11:52:34 PM 901 Views
fine then let them give back the land they were given random thoughts - 07/03/2011 01:20:23 PM 908 Views
I do not see the problem Camilla - 05/03/2011 09:48:06 AM 847 Views
I think it was poorly done Isaac - 05/03/2011 01:28:31 PM 979 Views
This is a very good objection. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/03/2011 02:36:43 AM 374 Views
I know I'm 12 years old in my head Bryce - 08/03/2011 01:25:00 PM 1095 Views
From the information given, I do not see the problem Mark - 07/03/2011 03:05:01 PM 1120 Views
would you be OK with a proffesor leading the Lord's Prayer and Pledge of Allgience? random thoughts - 07/03/2011 03:32:19 PM 806 Views
If it was part of a theology class and a demonstration rather than a regular event sure. *NM* Urza - 07/03/2011 03:35:44 PM 487 Views
why the limits? They are adults after all and they can sit down *NM* random thoughts - 07/03/2011 04:03:00 PM 395 Views
We're not talking about masturbation in philosphy class here. Urza - 07/03/2011 04:07:06 PM 920 Views
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I don't thinik there is any reason to feint in horror over this random thoughts - 07/03/2011 04:33:25 PM 826 Views
You are assuming that there is no educational value Mark - 07/03/2011 04:46:03 PM 834 Views
poppycock random thoughts - 07/03/2011 06:48:30 PM 853 Views
Hardly Mark - 07/03/2011 11:39:48 PM 958 Views
I actually agree with this. *NM* Urza - 08/03/2011 01:55:37 PM 356 Views
I loved him on America's Got Talent *NM* everynametaken - 11/03/2011 02:00:07 AM 362 Views
I agree with the uproar. Vivien - 08/03/2011 03:52:29 PM 958 Views
Re: I agree with the uproar. TaskmasterJack - 08/03/2011 10:03:33 PM 934 Views
true but they were not told there would be a live sex show until after it started random thoughts - 08/03/2011 10:50:01 PM 885 Views
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Not sure it rates national incident status random thoughts - 09/03/2011 02:05:46 PM 862 Views
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I think it depends on the level of the class and the major of students in said class. Avendesora - 09/03/2011 12:56:08 PM 914 Views
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