Read this story and then consider the headline.
It rather weakens one's case against the sort of hysteria the piece is attacking when one frames the story so falsely in one's headline.
Learning by Mail: The Impact of Correspondence Schools in Early 20th
Century America
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Daniela Vidart in this new NBER paper analyses impact of correspondence
schooling in US: This paper examines correspondence education as an
alternative edu...
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Yeah, well, Bill Muehlenberg. What do you expect? I think he needs an introduction to this concept:
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BM is a bit of a specimen.
ReplyDeleteLove the definition of 'squick', thanks. But the religious are often impressed by disgust: or even defined by it. The disgust that many Muslims have for dogs as "unclean" animals is a case in point. (Itself a brand-differentiation from Zoroastrianism, which thought dogs particularly noble beasts.)