Lofton / Re: Unfavorable feelings towards ideologies

2007-08-14 Thread James Maule
It simply comes down to a matter of who gets to decide what is true. Ultimately people determine for themselves what is true, and for students to do that for themselves they must be free of constraints that shove them into one corner that is characterized as "true" (thus earning an A) and that pena

Lofton / Re: Unfavorable feelings towards ideologies

2007-08-14 Thread John Lofton
So, what is the point here? -- that there is no such thing as truth; or that there is but it should not be told because truth causes some folks to feel "excluded"? John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com Recovering Republican "Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond, and b

Lofton / Re: Unfavorable feelings towards ideologies

2007-08-14 Thread John Lofton
Questions like the one below (by James Maule) are useless, too abstract. Thus my answer: It depends. To what "views" and "opinions" are you alluding, specifically, since some are true and some are false? Me? I love to "swallow and regurgitate" views and opinions that are true. Oh, and when