more on infrastructure problems

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Marc <marcaniballi () hotmail com>
Date: September 11, 2005 2:51:34 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: RE: [IP] more on infrastructure problems


<< one more:
a basic education system that is so poorly arranged that it only
works when kids "sit down (all day), shut up, and don't ask
questions". >>

Given the overall lack of general public outcry over recent  
developments,
one would suspect that this is the perfect (planned?) training for
(partisan) American citizenship. This is not exclusively an American  
problem
- the pure didactic methodology (sit down, shut up, absorb, don't  
think) is
the great handicap to the French infrastructure as well. Thank God  
there are
still places where the Socratic Method is appreciated. (Private schools,
mostly)

Marc

PS: Debbie; when the infrastructure crises begin (globally, IMHO) it  
is us
folks in the rural areas who will be playing host to the brains -  
because
they will be the first to realize that in an infrastructure crisis,  
food no
longer comes to you, you go to it!

-----Original Message-----
From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net]
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 12:58 PM
To: Ip Ip
Subject: [IP] more on infrastructure problems



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From: lists () rd3 net
Date: September 11, 2005 12:10:23 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] infrastructure problems
Reply-To: lists () rd3 net


  Sunday, September 11, 2005, 10:04:43 AM, you wrote:



> We, as a nation, have a serious infrastructure problem, a serious
> level of poverty, a serious health shortage, etc etc, All need
> attention and money. We have a military that was designed to fight
> the cold war; we have a poke barrel legislature; we have foreign
> adventurism that consumes resources; we have a deficit that current
> tax policy will be increasingly hard to handle etc etc.

one more:
a basic education system that is so poorly arranged that it only
works when kids "sit down (all day), shut up, and don't ask
questions".



> We need leadership the likes of FDR and we have ...

people whose brains only function in the suburbs and cities.

Sure, the usa is "going to seed" (past the fruiting part).
But seeds aren't so bad.
Do you folks notice the physical world that supports you?
There are many who will celebrate when "the brains" put their efforts
into supporting life instead of their lifestyles.

debbie,
one of your forgotten neighbors in rural PA



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