“Regardless of how students will interpret ‘except for instructional settings,’ I’m worried that this can only translate to more freedom for a culture of health laziness and give more fodder to the combative, politicized conception of individual freedom now rampant.” [More]Brian Griffin has a question:
[Via Michael G]
Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.
ReplyDelete--GERRY SPENCE
We've heard stories about the people in Russia feeling nostalgic for the old days in the USSR. It is hard to imagine people being nostalgic for living under that kind of evil.
ReplyDeleteThen my wife became coworkers with a Jewish Russian from Uzbekistan. It seems that someone ratted out her father's side business of making ball point pens in their basement, then selling them on the street to passers by. The entire family, including spouses, children and grandchildren were rounded up with what they could carry and deported to Italy. Seems kind of hard to believe, but that was their story and they stuck to it. The punch line?
Some of them were and still are nostalgic for the old days in the USSR.