tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776222898849461648.post5079039017769315816..comments2023-05-30T06:59:26.493-07:00Comments on Day by Day Discoveries: One More Thing on the Lessenberry...Dawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05895897568006441289noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776222898849461648.post-4655041096762242282008-05-05T16:33:00.000-07:002008-05-05T16:33:00.000-07:00Thanks, Dawn, so much for the positive link and th...Thanks, Dawn, so much for the positive link and the discussion. I almost regretted that I wrote that post because of the flaming I got from BS, his aliases, and his ilk.<BR/><BR/>Lynn, although Sowell is a conservative (and I eschew such labels) he was actually talking about anyone with any political viewpoint who moves discussion from rational thought toward the ideological divide. In the HS arena, I have seen ideologues of all stripes--classical to (believe it or not!) unschoolers. I say believe it or not 'cause it's hard for me to fathom how in the heck someone can claim that there is only one right way to do child-led learning. It boggles the mind!<BR/><BR/>JJ Ross: ...and even libertarian paternalism. My mind is more than boggled by that--consider it completely fried!Elisheva Hannah Levinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16061377724926154037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776222898849461648.post-43623986275975549652008-05-05T09:14:00.000-07:002008-05-05T09:14:00.000-07:00I'm with Lynn!And now that there are elites studyi...I'm with Lynn!<BR/>And now that there are elites studying "libertarian paternalism" too, well, I gess we'll need a third arm to get twisted on the courthouse steps?<BR/><BR/>See The Chronicle of Higher Education Review May 9, “The New Paternalism: An economist and a legal scholar argue that policy makers should nudge people into making good decisions" by EVAN R. GOLDSTEIN. <BR/><BR/> (I excerpt it along with a critique of this view for balance at Snook, if you have trouble getting to the whole articles.)JJ Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03493570025415687789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776222898849461648.post-79584932174945158482008-04-24T08:54:00.000-07:002008-04-24T08:54:00.000-07:00Sometimes I feel like a child in the middle of div...Sometimes I feel like a child in the middle of divorcing parents, each of whom wants to make me live <B>their</B> way. Each is an unfit parent, as far as I'm concerned.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776222898849461648.post-87910803714898005662008-04-24T06:05:00.000-07:002008-04-24T06:05:00.000-07:00I think it resonated for me because she wrote that...I think it resonated for me because she wrote that soon after a kerfuffle with Stephen Downes who seems concerned with education and people who aren't of the 'elite' yet doesn't actually seem ro want educational choices like homeschooling in our hands. People who know better will tell us what's right.<BR/><BR/>That seems to be a theme with critics from the left.Dawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05895897568006441289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776222898849461648.post-13307103465427121102008-04-24T01:10:00.000-07:002008-04-24T01:10:00.000-07:00Speaking as someone whose first homeschool convent...Speaking as someone whose first homeschool convention was more like a God-Bless-America, "Take-the-Land-Back" from the Liberal, Feminazi, Darwinian, Homo-Loving Elite rally, the use of Sowell quotes in this context didn't really resonate with me. For me? When I hear people described as the Annointed, the Benighted, the Ones Who Know What's Best for Us All, "(who) do not recognize any obligation to be tolerant towards those who disagree with them, but rather feel compelled to use the coercive power of the state to bring the Benighted damned to salvation," I'm picturing, well, Michael Farris ;) But, yes, that's me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com