alt.education

In article <14265390-5f13-4bde-a237-e825132916a7@n75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
zzbunker@netscape.net wrote:
>On Mar 13, 12:53=A0pm, last_p...@rogers.com wrote:
>> Holding Colleges Financially Accountable

>> By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
>> Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:20 PM PT

>> Philanthropy: Thomas Jefferson thought it a sin to compel a man to
>> furnish "money for the propagation of opinions" he opposes. What is it
>> when a university misuses funds from an endowment?

> Thomas Jefferson thought a lot of things.
> The only thing the revisionist idiots in Washington
> can't accept is the very plain, clear-as-night truth
> that he tought them all 200 years ago..
> Which since that time, non-Euclidean Geometry. Darwin's Theory of
>Evolution,
> Quantum Mechanics, Set Theory, Nuclear Power, Chemical Warfare,
>Missile Warfare,
> lasers, fiber communications, Turing Machines, Artifical
>Intelligence.
> . Digital Processing, Internet, GPS and Satellites, Voyager
>Spaceraft, Robotics,
> Aerial Terrain Mapping and Gene Spliicing have been constructed for
>the idiots.
> Rather than more slave plantations in Virgina.

Jefferson himself did not believe in slave plantations.

As for the subject, this has not changed. None of the
advances listed affect the truth of that statement of
Jefferson. That is why I will not contribute to the
United Way; some of it goes to organizations which do
just that, and earmarked money is put in before the
allocation of all non-earmarked money is made.
















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