[Wikipedia-l] Re: why an average person would wish to ruin a good article?

Sun Feb 1 19:37:18 UTC 2004

Fred Bauder wrote:

>Areas which are especially subject to academic politics which eventually
>skews the content of coursework. Generally these are areas which have
>overriding significance (in the eyes of academics) which require (in their
>eyes) that students be indoctrinated in a certain perspective. To give an
>egegious example, a Chinese history student on the mainland. But it goes
>beyond that sort of situation to include anyone who absorbs knowledge the
>content of which is subject to political process.
>
Another egregious example of indoctrination is the ritual recitation of 
the Pledge of Allegiance in American schools.  If something like that is 
repeated often enough it is bound to influence a person's outlook on 
history.

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