More Than A Feeling
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Fri Aug-05-05 09:50 AM
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Would you take a class that used a Neocon written textbook? |
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My European history class is going to be using "The Western Heritage" by Donald Kagan, a known PNAC'er. Now, the professor doesn't have to use it to try to make us all neocons, but it is still a little disconcerting. What do you all think?
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rwenos
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Fri Aug-05-05 10:03 AM
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The purpose of a university education is to consider all sides.
One of the best courses I ever took was from a drunk poet, another great course from a raging Marxist, a third from a right wing economist.
If the text book is obnoxious, play off it. If it's sympathetic to your view, agree with it.
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bertha katzenengel
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Fri Aug-05-05 10:07 AM
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Sounds like fun. Think of all the minds you'd be able to challenge. I daresay at least a third of the attendants in any history class don't even THINK about challenging what they read in a text. :)
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ScreamingMeemie
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Fri Aug-05-05 10:08 AM
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3. Actually, the Western Heritage books were pretty good. We used |
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them in my Renaissance History class and they were pretty thorough, and I did not notice and clear bias.
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