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Talk:Essay:Best Concepts to Teach Teenagers (view source)
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, 13:09, September 1, 2008→The Liberal Notion that Authority is necessarily Wrong: re freedom of thought
That improvement in an authority can only arise through criticism (which may be self-criticism) of the authority. Many authorities have not just avoided being good but have been positively bad. It is essential that children are taught to question and not blindly obey "authority", lest they obey bad instructions of authority later in life. If we do not teach children to question we run the risk of happy, drug free, intelligent people pushing other people into gas chambers because they were always taught at school to do what they were told without question. --[[User:Toffeeman|Toffeeman]] 08:09, 1 September 2008 (EDT)
That improvement in an authority can only arise through criticism (which may be self-criticism) of the authority. Many authorities have not just avoided being good but have been positively bad. It is essential that children are taught to question and not blindly obey "authority", lest they obey bad instructions of authority later in life. If we do not teach children to question we run the risk of happy, drug free, intelligent people pushing other people into gas chambers because they were always taught at school to do what they were told without question. --[[User:Toffeeman|Toffeeman]] 08:09, 1 September 2008 (EDT)
:Toffers, you are the incorrigible [[Liberal]]. How you can claim that authority is ''neccesarily'' wrong, I do not know. We [[Conservative]]s hold that freedom of thought is essential: seek truth from facts, not leftist dogma, and challenge authority when it is seen to be in error. But authority as neccesarily, as intrinsically a Bad Thing? No! [[User:Bugler|Bugler]] 09:04, 1 September 2008 (EDT)
:Toffers, you are the incorrigible [[Liberal]]. How you can claim that authority is ''neccesarily'' wrong, I do not know. We [[Conservative]]s hold that freedom of thought is essential: seek truth from facts, not leftist dogma, and challenge authority when it is seen to be in error. But authority as neccesarily, as intrinsically a Bad Thing? No! [[User:Bugler|Bugler]] 09:04, 1 September 2008 (EDT)
::I don't see much freedom of thought in this list - just teaching a kid a series of absolutes and prohibitions. The entries on teaching them to think for themself, evaluate situations and come to their own decisions were deleted. [[User:Sideways|Sideways]] 09:09, 1 September 2008 (EDT)
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== Voting Buttons ==
Would voting buttons be a good idea? My vote would go for "develop good habits", I like that one. After the "fun to decide" one - I wrote that, so obviously it's brilliant :) --[[User:Toffeeman|Toffeeman]] 08:39, 1 September 2008 (EDT)
Would voting buttons be a good idea? My vote would go for "develop good habits", I like that one. After the "fun to decide" one - I wrote that, so obviously it's brilliant :) --[[User:Toffeeman|Toffeeman]] 08:39, 1 September 2008 (EDT)