A smart reader wrote and offered an idea for a poll topic — “Here’s my suggestion for a poll question for your blog: Do you think Whitewater teaches and embraces free thinking?” Well, here we are, with that very question.
Quick assumptions:
(1) This question was about our schools, principally, but you may think of it more broadly if you’d like.
(2) I don’t have an answer – I know how I think, but not what’s being taught all over, throughout the community. I do think that there will be much more independent thinking in the years ahead.
(3) I’d say that free-thinking — whether of the left or right — is a good thing for a community, but others are sure to disagree, believing instead that an enforced consensus is preferable.
(In any event, I will always contend that free-thinking is an individual right, trumping compulsory-thinking expectations.)
Here’s that poll: Have at it.
Depends on where you work I guess
Some of us have heard that if you speak out you’ll be fired
Maybe that’s all legal but it tells you how limited our rights really are
No youre expected to go along
You can do it but its not “embraced” Who you know is embraced
It’s a mixed bag. Some teachers are inspiring and will encourage students to think outside the box. Others look upon any disagreement or unique opinions as proof positive of anti social, un American thinking.
But the schools are better than your aaverage don’t color out of the lines commission and committee. That’s where there is a real problem. The ones there who last there are the ones who don’t disagree.
People know a lot of what they hear is garbage but they tune it out to avoid hassles.
Whitewater is Mayberry, Hooterville and The Village, all in one. As The Prisoner learned, we create our own restrictions and inhibititions.
People do make their own restrictions, don’t they? Changes often seem harder than they really turn out to be, if only people don’t give up.