[689] in libertarians
Re: The Religious Right - Threat, Menace, or ...?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin THEOBALD)
Tue Feb 14 17:05:13 1995
From: theobald@duke.cs.mcgill.ca (Kevin THEOBALD)
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 16:56:46 -0500
In-Reply-To: Kathryn Moakler's message [Re: The Religious Right - Threat, Menace, or ...?] as of Feb 14, 16:37
To: moakler@icd.teradyne.com (Kathryn Moakler ), tjic@icd.teradyne.com
Cc: libertarians@MIT.EDU, rosed@world.std.com, lfb@panix.com,
Todd_Seavey@kaplan.com, libernet@dartmouth.edu
| By the way altruism _is_ encouraged in public schools currently. When
| a teacher tells the smarter kid to let the other kids answer, they're
| teaching the kid to sacrifice his intellectual stimulation for their
| educational needs. Just an aside.
Is this encouraging altruism? Well, you could interpret it that way,
but you could also simply say that the teacher is trying to ensure
a more equal distribution of the teacher's attention. I suspect that
a teacher in a free-market school would do the same, especially since
in a free market school, all the kids (or their parents) probably
paid equal amounts for their tuition.
Another story: I had egalitarianism rammed down my throat as
early as the second grade. The teacher ran these daily contests
where we had to combine numbered cards in some mathematical fashion.
I don't remember the details, but I remember I won something like
80% of the time. Then the teacher started ignoring my raised hand
and going to other kids who clearly finished later. When I
complained, she told me that "other kids should have the chance to
win too."
Kevin Theobald
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