File puptcrit/puptcrit.0606, message 247


From: mjm <mmoynihan-AT-wi.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:40:34 -0500
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] off-topic crap (was "Defence,


On Jun 14, 2006, at 7:11 PM, Steve Millward wrote:
> Hey !  Could we please cut out all this off-topic crap and get back to
> puppetry?  Thanks.
> Steve Millward

I am fairly certain that Albert Einstein was quoted as saying: "Only 
two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity." And, silly 
me, I thought this was all ON TOPIC CRAP! I guess consciousness varies 
per individual & world-view. Not to mention perception...

By the puppetry way, tonight my local PBS television station ran a 
GREAT PERFORMANCES show featuring an overview of the work of Bill 
Irwin. It included his entire MARIONETTE routine, which I find 
brilliant. I have been fortunate in seeing him back in the day (as the 
kids say) when he was a clown with the Pickle Family Circus. I imagine 
most TV viewers would have had little opportunity to see his work 
without Public Television, aka to some as "off-topic crap.

m j m
"One man's crap is another man's content" - Shakespeare, Einstein or 
Kermit the Frog (I forget)

> On 6/14/06, Kismet <kismet-AT-bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>> Education IS a family responsibility but then how do we teach our 
>> children
>> BEYOND what we know? If our own education was limited (you assume 
>> that most
>> people completed at least 10 years of schooling) how do we provide our
>> children the opportunity to develop beyond what we have? Your model 
>> is a
>> very comfortable Bourgoisie proposal for ensuring the serfs remain 
>> serfs and
>> the land owners remain unthreatened. No? And how about Social 
>> Education?
>> School is about a lot more than teaching sums and spelling. Through 
>> Home
>> Education my children would only know my social peers, our eratic 
>> lifestyle,
>> hold only my values and develop a stunted ability to interact 
>> socially...I
>> have seen this over and over with home education. And in this sad 
>> world
>> there are those who take advantage of home schooling, an example 
>> coming to
>> light recently where a father decided to home school his two young 
>> sons...I
>> neednt go any further.
>> The U.S is another great example of home schooling...I am constantly
>> flabbergasted at the ignorance that nation shows of the larger world,
>> outstanding! They cant even play baseball with the rest of the world,
>> preferring to have their own "world" championship with only America 
>> playing.
>> (FYI Japan beat Cuba and the US didnt make the preliminary finals) 
>> And how
>> often do I get offers of black market medication from the US that is 
>> TEN
>> TIMES what we pay over the counter for the same drugs (Low income 
>> earners
>> pay a MAXIMUM of $2.25 US for ANY medication)
>> Of course the quality of a school based education is greatly affected 
>> by the
>> competence of the teachers but if the government insists on paying 
>> peanuts
>> we are going to get monkeys! As the tee-shirt says "when the military 
>> has to
>> have a cake stall to buy a new fighter plane then perhaps we will 
>> have an
>> education system to be proud of".
>>
>> Daniel
>>

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