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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: Work, Play and Alfie Kohn
Art is neither boring nor off base. The discourse between him and others is mind expanding. We need all schools of thought to make any sense out of this thing called NCLB. Someone once said, "There is some good in the worst of us and some bad in the best of us." Joe Bo -----Original Message----- From: arn-l-owner@interversity.org [mailto:arn-l-owner@interversity.org] On Behalf Of leoecasey@optonline.net Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:12 PM To: arn-l@interversity.org Subject: Re: [arn-l] Work, Play and Alfie Kohn In the realm of predictability, Art, I am afraid that Alfie Kohn would be a rank amateur next to a world class performer like yourself. The notion that you might mount an independent thought, even on the rare occasion, that you might actually make a contribution that would surprise someone, anyone, is as foreign to you as it is to a heresy seeking Taliban. It gets sooooooooooooooooo boring... -----Original Message----- From: leoecasey@optonline.net To: arn-l@interversity.org Sent: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 5:50 AM Subject: [arn-l] Work, Play and Alfie Kohn http://edwize.org/work-play-and-alfie-kohn Reading anti-homework evangelist Alfie Kohn is a very predictable experience... ________________________________________________________________________ Right. Kohn lives in a schematized world similar to the one occupied by those who claim that NCLB is a stealth tool to privatize public education or those who claim that Milton Friedman is complicit in murder in Chile and his Noble Prize-winning colleagues are covering up for him. Art ------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe ARN-L: http://interversity.org/lists/arn-l/subscribe.html
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