"The report calls for a stronger history and social studies curriculum, starting in elementary school and continuing through all years of schooling. It also suggests a bigger push for morality in education lessons.
"The basic ideas of liberty, equality, and justice, of civil, political and economic rights and obligations, are all assertions of right and wrong, of moral values," the report says. "The authors of the American testament had no trouble distinguishing moral education from religious instruction, and neither should we."
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Yikes. Talk about a fucked up two paragraphs. There should be a push for truth in education lessons, not a movement to slant it towards a particular idea of morals. Too many things in history happen in spite of or because of morals that got off track to entangle the two together.
Yes, that may be a list of 'assertions of right and wrong' in the second paragraph but how many administrations in the last 50 years in this country have utilized those values as anything other than a method to twist their actions into something that can be 'spun' into what suits the 'spinner'.
Everytime I watch JayWalking with Leno I cringe.
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