Almost entirely off-topic rant - apologies in advance:::

[Brian Morrison]

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 16:26:59 +0100, David Hansen wrote:

>In this sort of poisoned atmosphere some libraries may well have made 
>the mistake they have been rightly criticised for, of seeking to 
>desensitise children to make them more compliant adults. I doubt if 
>this intent was recognised consciously, but I suspect it was there 
>subconsciously.
>

You may be right in what you suggest. Was it this list where someone
suggested that the education system changes in recent years had been
made in order to reduce the cost of achieving the government's aims by
making adults more compliant? I forget.

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Brian Morrison                                       bdm@fenrir.org.uk
              do you know how far this has gone?
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