Eron Sanders
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Eron Sanders commented on You Can't Always Start From Scratch on March 29, 2008, 7:02 PM
I think this is a very interesting point, but I wonder whether there is in fact no place at all for the notion of starting from scratch. Take, for instance, the Pilgrims who traveled to America in order to build a new society from scratch. I wouldn't entirely say that what happened was in fact that they envisioned, but it does seem like the success of their enterprise owes a great deal to the grandiosity of their ambitions. I still agree that the idea of the blank slate is indeed dangerously seductive and often has very negative consequences. Nonetheless, I wonder whether we can still harness it in some creative ways to bring about genuine and productive change.
Eron Sanders commented on What is the state of the American education system? on March 10, 2008, 8:52 PM
I see the video on foreign intelligence, with the transcript for domestic education.
Eron Sanders commented on What is the state of the American education system? on March 10, 2008, 4:52 PM
I see the video on foreign intelligence, with the transcript for domestic education.
Eron Sanders commented on Does race still matter? on February 23, 2008, 3:01 PM
I understand that race and class are often closely intertwined, but it strikes me as unsatisfactory to say race still matters because the lower-class black experience is different from the middle class white experience. Even if that assertion is true, what does that tell us about the degree to which race matters?
Eron Sanders commented on You Can't Always Start From Scratch on March 29, 2008, 11:02 PM
I think this is a very interesting point, but I wonder whether there is in fact no place at all for the notion of starting from scratch. Take, for instance, the Pilgrims who traveled to America in order to build a new society from scratch. I wouldn't entirely say that what happened was in fact that they envisioned, but it does seem like the success of their enterprise owes a great deal to the grandiosity of their ambitions. I still agree that the idea of the blank slate is indeed dangerously seductive and often has very negative consequences. Nonetheless, I wonder whether we can still harness it in some creative ways to bring about genuine and productive change.