Thursday, December 13, 2007

Our Students Have Been Misled By Bush

A Professor at St Lawrence University, writes: "I have now received three (3) student papers that discuss Iraq's attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11. All three papers mention it as an aside to another point. I've had two papers on the virtue of forgiveness that argue that if we had just forgiven Iraq for the 9/11 attacks, we wouldn't be at war right now. I just read a paper on the problem of evil which asked why God allowed 'the Iraq's' to attack us on 9/11. The thing that upsets me most here is that the the students don't just believe that that Iraq was behind 9/11. This is a big fact in their minds, that leaps out at them, whenever they think about the state of the world."

How depressing. And in 6 years, why haven't parents or teachers corrected them? Perhaps a sadder thing is that in the comments, the same professor writes: "I didn't grade any of the students down at all, because in each case the remark was an aside or an example. Nothing in the argument of the paper depended on it."

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