Our nation cannot censor its way back to cultural health

Re:Our nation cannot censor its way back to cultural health by roenxi on Monday February 07, 2022 @01:25AM (#30241086)

He's talking about this at a school. The fundamental premise of a school is that someone is going to decide what is and is not valuable to learn. And that there is an authority (embodied in the teacher) who has the power to decide what will and will not be discussed in class.

Assuming you mean what you wrote, you may be arguing for abolishing the public school system. In principle that seems like an interesting idea, but the rest of your post isn't quite congruent with that so it seems possible you've missed that this part of the thread is about school curriculum.

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Re:Our nation cannot censor its way back to cultural health by bruce511 on Monday February 07, 2022 @03:31AM (#30241885)

So yes, clearly there is a carriculim, and someone has to set that, and there will be a flavor to that carriculim based on the social environment.

I don't have a problem with that, and I don't have a problem with teachers bringing their own personality to the classroom. I am not vegan, but if my kid has a vegan teacher that would be valuable in exposing them to that world-view.

I do object to political interference in education. When the govt decided what material is OK, and what is not, then you remove the variety of thought which exists in the world. And ultimately that leads to a lack of personal critical thinking which leads young (and older) adults to belive anything.

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Re:Our nation cannot censor its way back to cultural health by roenxi on Monday February 07, 2022 @04:20AM (#30242262)

You may struggle to reconcile this with the idea of public schooling and keep your position coherent. Particularly compulsory public schooling.

It is hard for the government to control the school system and also for the government not to exercise any control over the school system. I think you might be advocating voluntary, private-only schooling here - although I also think you might disagree with that opinion.

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Re:Our nation cannot censor its way back to cultural health by bruce511 on Monday February 07, 2022 @02:21PM (#30249665)

I wouldn't say I'm advocating for private school,or even lack of govt in school matters.

I guess my primary point surrounds censorship, especially when it comes to dictating what teachers can say or teach (in addition to, in the context of, not necessarily in place of the cariculum)

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