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One of the most corrosive parts of the public school religion is the belief that

real

knowledge and understanding is necessarily dispassionate and discussed without

emotion.

In fact, nothing could be further from the truth.

We all go through life simply accepting things and the way they are as 'right.'

We buy into

the perceived social order - the way things are suppoosed to be.

In order to understand the way things truly are, we need to question things we

accept.

This is necessarily distressing. Most people experience and express a lot of

emotion

during this process.

If you look in the archives, you'll see many many instances of people expressing

a lot of

negative emotion at me. I personally find this very uncomfortable and am by

nature a

calm, quiet person. However I never objected to the level of emotion but rather

simply

kept taking about fact and logic.

Most people can not change their minds about any meaningful issue without a lot

of

emotion.

Emotion, and usually its expression, is an essential part of change, growth, and

understanding.

I think this has been made adequately clear, again, with the discussion of

public

education.

Depending on which part of the audience you are trying to reach, either

expressing this

emotion or controlling it and presenting logic is best - generally some amount

of mix and

match is what happens and what works.

Of course you are all very familiar with this in another context - how emotional

people

become if you start talking to them about how doctors make their living

poisoning babies.

If we stick to the rule that legitimate discussion should not be emotional it

becomes

impossible to convince doctors that they should stop poisoning babies.

I do not accept the dogma of the public school bureaucracy that all legitimate

knowledge

is dispassionate, and can only be discussed dispassionately. I think this is

very evil and

truly corrodes the fabric of society.

Andy