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Demeter

(85,373 posts)

1. Sorry, no

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Nov 11, 2015, 02:40 AM

Nov 2015

We as a society, as an institution, as an instrument of conformity, DO NOT want creativity, reflectiveness, experimentation, or any of those independent thinking memes.

The teachers who enforce conformity and "one right answer" are either math teachers or doing the job they were paid to do by a nation that shudders at the thought of self-actualizing youth.

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