Comments on: On consumption and censorship

By: ubuntucat

ubuntucat — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:20:37 +0000

Yeah, pretty much. I used English as an example because I used to teach it.

By: Pat Cahalan

Pat Cahalan — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:02:00 +0000

> The point of teaching English is to get students to
> think critically about what they consume—not to
> consume blindly, but to see that every work of art
> (visual art, comic book art, music, film, novels,
> poetry) conveys its author’s worldview or agenda,
> even if the author herself is not conscious of that.

You can take out “English” and this is a pretty good mission statement for scholasticism in general.

By: ubuntucat

ubuntucat — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:38:13 +0000

Thanks for the update.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:23:16 +0000

Of interest there is some more background on this particular story on Computer Weekly at:

http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/12/08/233763/uk-wikipedia-users-unhappy-over-scorpions-page-block.htm