Jacqueline Henry wrote:
> 4. I just read Doug Johnson's article in Book Report - "Old Folks and =
> Technology". I was intrigued by the John Lubbock quote that he used:
> "There are three great questions which in life we have to ask over and =
> over again to answer:
> Is it right or wrong?
> Is it true or false?
> Is it beautiful or ugly?
> Our education ought to help us to answer these questions."
My concern with these three questions is that they are dichotomous. You might
as well ask, of a butterfly, is it black or white?
Our lives are not made up of either-or phenomena. In some situations a response
may be considered right; in other situations, the same response may be
considered wrong.
I suspect Lubbock is paraphrasing (poorly) the questions that philosophers have
struggled with for centuries:
What is good?
What is true?
What is beautiful?
If these philosophers, after a lifetime of thought and analysis, have been
unable to arrive at definitive answers to these questions, how can educators be
so arrogant as to think that students can give clear-cut answers to these
questions?
Aleene Nielson
Retired LMS, Tchr., Prof.
Tucson, AZ
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