Quotable Tidbits
Category: Ponderings Monday, December 4, 2006 at 10:06 amThe fewer people that vote in elections the more divide our country becomes. Moderates are most apethetic to voting and radicals are most active.
All sources are biased. We need to stop teaching students “both sides of each story”, or rather not teaching them at all, when only one side can be presented. Rather, to best prepare our nation for the digital, participatory culture, we need to teach our students to understand inherent bias and how to make good decisions based on the nature of their sources.
Pregnancy is not a disability, however some accomodations are necessary. Many working women are afraid to ask for such accomodations, however, as they don’t want to be perceived as less than equal to working men.
Can’t we be equal, but different?
By becoming full-time working out-of-the-house contributors to society, women have inadvertently devalued stay-at-home work.