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Excellent Letter to the Editor About Education and Values

Heather Bruce from Missoula had an outstanding letter to the editor about education today in the Missoulian. The key excerpt:

No way of teaching is ever innocent. Traditional educational methods provide a philosophical and historical foundation for a society that has always been deeply racist, sexist, homophobic and, despite the seemingly egalitarian ideology of our American forebears, far more committed to class privilege than to equality. Schools of education whose mission it is to liberate the American curriculum and traditional ways of teaching that hide rather than reveal these facts about American education ought to be celebrated not chastised for their work in attempting to realize the underlying promises of liberty and justice for all through free public education and the role it might play in American democratic life.

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    • Sun, Feb 26, 2006

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    2 Comments For This Post

    1. touchstone Says:
      February 26th, 2006 at 3:37 pm

      Bruce is a very talented educator at the U of MT. The link appears to be broken, or the letter was taken off the site. What was the context?

    2. Pogie Says:
      February 26th, 2006 at 3:42 pm

      It looks like it was last Sunday. Odd–it looked like yesterday when I checked this morning.

      The letter is here.
      http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2006/02/19/letters/letters1.txt

      Thanks for pointing it out.

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