[Vision2020] public schools & indoctrination
Joshua Nieuwsma
joshuahendrik@yahoo.com
Tue, 11 Nov 2003 23:30:48 -0800 (PST)
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I would almost wonder if you didn't really experience life as a child. Most children I know of, and my own memories, vouch for the fact that personal property is extremely important to children. If you want to teach what you call sharing, you don't do it by giving everyone everything. You do it by withholding. And it is wrong to teach children that what their parents buy for them really belongs to others. The problem is not the teaching of sharing, which is considered a virtue by itself, the problem is the lack of teaching about gratefulness. We are to be grateful for what we have, and then we should be taught to ask to use something that belongs to someone else. It's not automatically ours just because we didn't get one from our mommies. It starts in the small things, Amy. I sincerely hope you keep your current opinion about not having kids. To be frank, they would grow up spoiled little brats. Just like most Americans today. Hmm.... wonder if there is a connection between !
preschool
and attitude problems after all...
And I for one know exactly what people of the next generation will be doing when you're in a wheelchair or wishing for physical therapy. They will be swearing at "that old lady in the care center" that they have to go visit in order to get enough community hours to get the scholarship that they think they already deserve. They'll be fighting lawsuits to get their neighbor's BMW, they'll be suing Applebees for not providing the same food that their friends in Lewiston get. They won't understand what's behind the invented virtue of sharing at all. And it's not sharing anyhow. Kindness and generosity is not "sharing". It is giving of what you have to others, and not expecting anything, Anything back. Sharing as a "virtue" seems to me to be really part of the impossible liberal utopia, not a true fruit of the Spirit.
sincerely,
Joshua Nieuwsma
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<DIV>I would almost wonder if you didn't really experience life as a child. Most children I know of, and my own memories, vouch for the fact that personal property is <EM>extremely</EM> important to children. If you want to teach what you call sharing, you don't do it by giving everyone everything. You do it by withholding. And it is wrong to teach children that what their parents buy for <EM>them</EM> really belongs to others. The problem is not the teaching of sharing, which is considered a virtue by itself, the problem is the lack of teaching about gratefulness. We are to be grateful for what we have, and then we should be taught to <EM>ask</EM> to use something that belongs to someone else. It's not automatically ours just because we didn't get one from our mommies. It starts in the small things, Amy. I sincerely hope you keep your current opinion about not having kids. To be frank, they would grow up spoiled little brats. Just like most Americans today. H!
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wonder if there is a connection between preschool and attitude problems after all...</DIV>
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<DIV>And I for one know exactly what people of the next generation will be doing when you're in a wheelchair or wishing for physical therapy. They will be swearing at "that old lady in the care center" that they <EM>have</EM> to go visit in order to get enough community hours to get the scholarship that they think they already deserve. They'll be fighting lawsuits to get their neighbor's BMW, they'll be suing Applebees for not providing the same food that their friends in Lewiston get. They won't understand what's behind the invented virtue of sharing at all. And it's not sharing anyhow. Kindness and generosity is not "sharing". It is giving of what you have to others, and not expecting anything, <EM>Anything</EM> back. Sharing as a "virtue" seems to me to be really part of the impossible liberal utopia, not a true fruit of the Spirit. </DIV>
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<DIV>sincerely,</DIV>
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<DIV>Joshua Nieuwsma</DIV><p><hr SIZE=1>
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