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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 1362 Views
Random thoughts posted about it the other day Stephen - 05/03/2011 01:25:22 AM 636 Views
Why would this be inappropriate? The lecture was on human sexuality. *NM* Aeryn - 05/03/2011 04:19:46 AM 298 Views
If this was at my school, I would feel...weird. Fox and Ravens - 05/03/2011 05:22:15 AM 684 Views
It was optional. So the mortified students presumably weren't confronted with it. *NM* Ghavrel - 05/03/2011 08:02:31 AM 276 Views
Isn't education supposed to expand your mind? Aeryn - 06/03/2011 07:38:02 PM 665 Views
No it is supposed to fill it with knowledge random thoughts - 07/03/2011 04:02:17 PM 875 Views
To quote Philip Pullman and Archbishop Rowan Williams... Ghavrel - 09/03/2011 02:23:51 AM 884 Views
I think it's a pretty valid point of contention whether Darth_Katie - 09/03/2011 01:41:23 PM 830 Views
This.... Urza - 09/03/2011 07:44:03 PM 714 Views
Get fulfilled on your own dime random thoughts - 09/03/2011 02:03:43 PM 636 Views
The least surprising thing about this entire article Luke - 05/03/2011 04:40:50 AM 702 Views
Finally, someone at least had the guts to name the sex toy. A chainsaw cock. Tom - 05/03/2011 05:01:11 AM 783 Views
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Sounds like a rational proffesor *NM* Urza - 05/03/2011 05:31:11 AM 296 Views
The reaction would make sense if these were schoolchildren. Tim - 05/03/2011 09:02:13 AM 718 Views
I think it is pretty easy to question the value and the wisdom random thoughts - 05/03/2011 11:57:55 AM 655 Views
That would be a valid concern ranagrande - 06/03/2011 05:01:13 AM 633 Views
It remains a valid concern Isaac - 06/03/2011 11:52:34 PM 679 Views
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I do not see the problem Camilla - 05/03/2011 09:48:06 AM 666 Views
I think it was poorly done Isaac - 05/03/2011 01:28:31 PM 790 Views
This is a very good objection. *NM* Ghavrel - 06/03/2011 02:36:43 AM 286 Views
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From the information given, I do not see the problem Mark - 07/03/2011 03:05:01 PM 925 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 636 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 408 Views
why the limits? They are adults after all and they can sit down *NM* random thoughts - 07/03/2011 04:03:00 PM 289 Views
We're not talking about masturbation in philosphy class here. Urza - 07/03/2011 04:07:06 PM 741 Views
If religon was the subject of the lecture, Mark - 07/03/2011 04:18:05 PM 769 Views
I don't thinik there is any reason to feint in horror over this random thoughts - 07/03/2011 04:33:25 PM 646 Views
You are assuming that there is no educational value Mark - 07/03/2011 04:46:03 PM 651 Views
poppycock random thoughts - 07/03/2011 06:48:30 PM 654 Views
Hardly Mark - 07/03/2011 11:39:48 PM 758 Views
I actually agree with this. *NM* Urza - 08/03/2011 01:55:37 PM 276 Views
I loved him on America's Got Talent *NM* everynametaken - 11/03/2011 02:00:07 AM 280 Views
I agree with the uproar. Vivien - 08/03/2011 03:52:29 PM 779 Views
Re: I agree with the uproar. TaskmasterJack - 08/03/2011 10:03:33 PM 753 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 703 Views
True. In that case, I'd have called everyone who left and told them to come back. TaskmasterJack - 09/03/2011 01:09:00 AM 775 Views
Not sure it rates national incident status random thoughts - 09/03/2011 02:05:46 PM 671 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 727 Views
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