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Started by RAS Phila
Thu, 02 Apr 1998 00:00
Re: trashing TV
Author: RAS Phila
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 00:00
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Well put. We never limited our daughter's TV watching, and she is now at Swarthmore College, reads voraciously, and does well in her studies. She's also politically and socially active. There's lots of good stuff on TV and in books; they can complement each other if one makes good choices. Consider Ken Burns' The Civil War, which makes a great book and an even better television series. Absolutely gripping. (In opposition to many critics, I say the same about his Baseball series, where the TV version does something no book can do--presents action footage of Babe Ruth and Willie Mays (among many others) doing what they did best.) No need to ban one or the other, and it says volumes about our confidence in our children that we speak of banning speech at all. If you ban speech, you teach children that suppression is an appropriate response. If you teach them to recognize good from bad speech (or positive from negative or any terms you want to substitute), you teach them that the only proper response to a bad idea is a better one. What lesson do we want them to learn? Bob Seeley Desktop Resources/Resources for Peace, 141 W. Harvey St., Philadelphia, PA Desktop Resources Home Page: http://come.to/desktop.resources Resources for Peace Home Page: http://come.to/peace.on.earth Discover Germantown Home Page: http://come.to/discover.germantown
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