darthbeckman: No real solution

The Napoleon of Thought Crime (

darthbeckman) wrote,
@ 2008-08-04 22:13:00

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what's wrong with the world

No real solution
One of the stupidest ideas of the twentieth century is still with us, alas: if there are any inequalities between human beings it must - IT MUST - be because of environmental factors. We're all a tabula rasa, and we can all be perfectly equal in every way if we can just get the social conditions in place.

There's a very good reason why most politicians send their own children to private schools.

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	expectare 2008-08-05 05:28 am UTC (link)
	There's a very good reason why most politicians send their own children to private schools. Yeah. Better environment. (Reply to this)

	nmissi 2008-08-05 04:16 pm UTC (link)
	Steve Pinker's "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature" is the best book I've encountered on the history of "tabula rasa" theory and the many, many ways it has been disproven. I highly recommend it, if you're interested in the ways in which educational theory have distorted our perceptions of what it means to be human. (Reply to this)