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To: Torie

We seem to have a good deal of trouble properly teaching them to read, nevermind how to think in a properly critical manner. I understand your point, but as a practical matter, we can at least, for the time being, insure that the factual matter provided to them is as correct as we currently know it to be. Deferring resolution until the day they all have properly trained minds seems to me to be the sort of thing Voltaire was referring to when he noted that "le mieux est l'ennemi du bien".


52 posted on 11/01/2005 7:30:29 PM PST by Senator Bedfellow (g_r)
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To: Senator Bedfellow

My French is rusty, but I am sure the comment was elegant and devastating to whatever point I am trying to make, however ineptly. :)


55 posted on 11/01/2005 7:33:15 PM PST by Torie
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is as correct as we currently know it to be

Who's this we, white man?

271 posted on 11/04/2005 1:56:06 AM PST by The Red Zone (Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
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