tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post8470562209026744779..comments2024-03-13T21:26:03.011-07:00Comments on Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher: These Students Want An EducationDarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-18246216368428084752007-06-19T17:15:00.000-07:002007-06-19T17:15:00.000-07:00I just finished reading "Three Cups of Tea" and fo...I just finished reading "Three Cups of Tea" and for all of it's underlying liberalism, there is a core belief that educating these children will overcome the indoctrination done by madrassas. In fact at one point the main narrator says (and this is a paraphrase because my daughter ran off with my copy of the book...)we educate the girls because the boys get an education and move away to become successful. The girls, on the other hand, come home and apply what they have learned and become leaders in their towns and villages...I think I could support a move to educate children and offer them an unfettered education that fits within their culture rather than the ignorant brainwashing that passes for schooling in madrassas.Ellen Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02845981491726296767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-77375766195697831542007-06-19T15:49:00.000-07:002007-06-19T15:49:00.000-07:00Wow. From that link:*****The youth sat quietly at...Wow. From that link:<BR/><BR/>*****<BR/>The youth sat quietly at the back of the classroom as the two masked robbers, aged 14 and 15, burst in and threatened his teacher with a steel bar if she did not hand over the reports.<BR/><BR/>After grabbing them, the two tried to flee but dropped the reports as other students leapt to defend the teacher. The two were arrested close to the school, and told police their friend had devised the raid because he was afraid of flunking a year.<BR/>*****<BR/><BR/>Good thing we don't draw large lessons from anecdotes, or I'd say something like, "So much for the vaunted German education system!"Darrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-76487694318582481372007-06-19T14:53:00.000-07:002007-06-19T14:53:00.000-07:00Compare that to the kid in Germany who convinced t...Compare that to the kid in Germany who convinced two friends to storm his class and steal the report cards with his bad grades so, he thinks, will prevent him from flunking out.<BR/><BR/><BR/>http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070618/od_nm/germany_student_dc_1;_ylt=Ao9kP2S5DtAncuylfeugj.gE1vAIKauaiMarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02581543514815246743noreply@blogger.com