Comments on: Back to education http://tryingtofollow.com/2005/08/23/back-to-education/ Thoughts on the Journey Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:15:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ariah http://tryingtofollow.com/2005/08/23/back-to-education/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Ariah Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:36:19 +0000 http://blog.iamnotashamed.net/index.php/34#comment-54 Anonymous, my dear friend, I'm sorry you feel everything is a debate. The reason I use words like "I guess" and "I don't know" is because that is what I mean. I don't pretend to have the right answers or the perfect solutions. As I wrote in my post I'm asking questions, you seem to think I'm trying to persuade you of something. Somehow you've jumped to the conclusion that I'm trying to convince you of something that would take you away from money you feel you've earned, and that I'd do it at gun point. Obviously, we've got a lot to learn about one another. Back to my questions: Do you really think it's fine for education to be unequal? Anonymous, my dear friend,

I’m sorry you feel everything is a debate. The reason I use words like “I guess” and “I don’t know” is because that is what I mean. I don’t pretend to have the right answers or the perfect solutions. As I wrote in my post I’m asking questions, you seem to think I’m trying to persuade you of something.

Somehow you’ve jumped to the conclusion that I’m trying to convince you of something that would take you away from money you feel you’ve earned, and that I’d do it at gun point. Obviously, we’ve got a lot to learn about one another.

Back to my questions:
Do you really think it’s fine for education to be unequal?

]]> By: Anonymous http://tryingtofollow.com/2005/08/23/back-to-education/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Anonymous Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:15:37 +0000 http://blog.iamnotashamed.net/index.php/34#comment-53 Everything is a debate. When you begin talking about using people's money to accomplish certain ends, whether it be national defense or equal education, you invite dispute from those who do not wish for their money to be used or wasted for those purposes. Therefore, it becomes a question of determining, via debate, who possesses legitimacy and reason. Everything in politics is a debate. But if you don't like that word, I will state it differently: "Some times I laugh, because you all don't know how to frame the issue at all". You have no clue how to persuade people that your ideas should triumph over others. Your words are couched in ambiguity, i.e. "i guess" and "i don't know". How then can you expect others to happily turn over their money at the point of a gun for use in something that will guarantee less-than-certain results? You cannot. Everything is a debate. When you begin talking about using people’s money to accomplish certain ends, whether it be national defense or equal education, you invite dispute from those who do not wish for their money to be used or wasted for those purposes. Therefore, it becomes a question of determining, via debate, who possesses legitimacy and reason. Everything in politics is a debate.

But if you don’t like that word, I will state it differently:
“Some times I laugh, because you all don’t know how to frame the issue at all”.

You have no clue how to persuade people that your ideas should triumph over others. Your words are couched in ambiguity, i.e. “i guess” and “i don’t know”. How then can you expect others to happily turn over their money at the point of a gun for use in something that will guarantee less-than-certain results?

You cannot.

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