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Destruction of the Mind
by Glenn Woiceshyn
[Published in the Globe and Mail on May/17/90]
Dear Editor,
Re: "Reading and Writing and Duck Eggs"--by Orland French--May/01/90--The
Globe and Mail
Orland French has revealed a disaster of such proportions it makes the Exxon Valdez
oil spill look like a mud puddle in comparison. A proper education is essential in
preparing young people for adult life. Many students enter university without having
acquired the crucial skill of how to think. Thanks to modern teaching, many leave
university with a belligerent attitude that thinking is not important.
Instead of being prepared for a life of intellectual adventure, achievement and fulfillment,
students are groomed for boredom, mediocrity and passivity. Today's widespread drug
abuse is no accident, and fighting Colombians in the jungle is no solution. While
masses of people are up in arms about environmental "problems," the destruction
of the greatest human resource -- the mind ò is being carried out in the open virtually
unchallenged.
Sincerely,
Glenn Woiceshyn
© 1997 Glenn Woiceshyn. All rights reserved.
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