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Philip Pullman on the futility and evil of banning books
Philip "Golden Compass" Pullman on why book bans -- especially religiously inspired book bans -- are so futile and wrong:
Because they never learn. The inevitable result of trying to ban something - book, film, play, pop song, whatever - is that far more people want to get hold of it than would ever have done if it were left alone. Why don't the ( Read more... ) -
Quote from CS Lewis
Once upon a time, in between scrawling allegorical fables about lions and wardrobes, CS Lewis said something prescient. "Of all tyrannies," he wrote, "a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The robber baron's cruelty ( Read more... ) -
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How to improve teaching
Saw on the Internet (subject was about how to raise the status of teachers ( Read more... ) -
Global manufacturing exports
I just saw a new piece that repeated the often heard idea that the manufacturing base in the United States is going away and that we hardly export manufactured goods anymore ( Read more... )
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