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Entry 1289 — An Instance of Egalityrian Thinking

Wednesday, December 4th, 2013

From a George Will column:

When Britain’s education secretary said children should learn to add and subtract, and memorize some of the nation’s kings and queens, a teachers’ union objected.  The union had hitherto said: “For the state to suggest that some knowledge should be privileged over other knowledge is a bit totalitarian in a 21st century environment.”

All knowledge, you see, is equally valuable: to say it isn’t would mean that Igor’s knowledge of car-types might be termed inferior to Hozlick’s knowledge of algebra by some insidious elitist, which would have to hurt Igor’s feelings.

Yeah, I’m too blah to post anything but hate-entries at the moment.

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