Education is about learning how to learn. Exploring new ideas and learning to apply those ideas in new ways in the real world. Ignoring truth is not good education, but indoctrination.
What scares me the most about the conservative agenda right now, is the desire to reshape schools to limit the exploration of ideas. To discuss history as found in our text books, and to band books that will question the validity of those ideas.
With simple statements such as “all politicians are liars.”. I’d prefer my elected officials to be stretchers of the truth and not pathological liars. Donald Trump is a pathological liar.
His list of crimes against this country is long. Mitch McConnell in his speech following Donald Trump’s 2nd impeachment said. “President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office, as an ordinary citizen, unless the statute of limitations has run, still liable for everything he did while in office, didn’t get away with anything yet”.
“a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.” Famously, those freedoms were the “freedom of speech and expression,” the “freedom of every person to worship God in his own way,” the “freedom from want” and the “freedom from fear.”
I find this in the Declaration of Independence. “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal.” I believe the founding fathers, with this statement provided the mission statement for the country.
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Their approach is to label opposing people and ideas in negative terms. All the while many republicans do little to advance alternatives. The terms liberal, socialism and now WOKE paint opponents as extremist when in truth the most dangerous extremists are getting elected as republicans.
It wasn’t Democrats who excited a mob to attack the capital on January 6th. It isn’t Democrats calling for strict restrictions on abortion or limiting what is available in school libraries. Republicans with a super majority in Florida are restricting speech in schools and public forums.
While democrats may disagree with conservative ideas and dismiss those ideas as unworkable, they do not attack the right to express those ideas. This is true around the country.
Yes, in the low elementary grades. There should be a strict curriculum. Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic provide a platform. But once that platform is built, students now have the basis to explore and learn based on needs and desires. The emphasis of the education should be on encouraging that exploration.
What bothers me most about the stop WOKE acts in Florida, is these practices are being encouraged in High Schools and Colleges. Conservative students are rewarded without being challenged. They are just right.
Is this country a democracy. Our founding fathers chose the right of free speech as the 1st Amendment.
Webster’s definition of liberal is found here. Possible synonyms include generous, open-minded. Republican rhetoric considers liberal to be a dirty word.
I can think of little now that I would value more than being liberal. Our country has serious problems in the area of health care and immigration among others. While espousing easy answers might get someone elected. True long term solutions require an ability to think outside the box.
Solutions won’t be found without open discussion. Do democrats need to hear conservative views. Absolutely. But open-minded individuals adjust when others present reasonable arguments. Conservative leaning on authoritarian individuals expect others to bend to their will without question.
In today’s environment too many republicans are unwilling to compromise. And the rest of the republicans enable the bad apples.
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