Subject: tolerance and educational implications
From: Ania Lian (ania@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au)
Date: Fri 21 Jan 2000 - 23:46:21 MET
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 08:46:21 +1000 (EST) From: Ania Lian <ania@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au> Subject: tolerance and educational implications
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Rich Songer wrote:
> It is, again, a dodge used to keep from making waves needed for progress. I
> disagree wholeheartedly with the idea that every view is correct. Tolerance does
> not suggest absolute, and relativism reigns only in the minds of those without
> commitment to push for axioms.
> I believe, but am tolerant of, relativism. But if the core of this
> philosophy means the inability to defend the techniques of quality
> education that works in my reality, then, for now at least, I'm a
> bigot.
I think I said it once before: we need to reflect whether at fault for the
inability to articulate the implications of specific theory is the theory
itself or our very attempts. If things were so straightforwardly flowing
from one implicature to another, we probably would not need to think:
things would be naturally obvious. All social, political or intellectual
difficulties could be brought down to a bad will on the part of those who
refuse to take things for what they are.
Ania Lian
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