{"id":789,"date":"2008-08-21T11:46:40","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T15:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=789"},"modified":"2008-08-22T14:42:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T18:42:47","slug":"stop-contradicting-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=789","title":{"rendered":"Stop contradicting yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the never begun quest to figure out why our children isn&#39;t learning, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/08\/20\/AR2008082002947.html?hpid=opinionsbox1\">George Will<\/a> hits upon the answer:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, powerful factions fiercely oppose the flourishing. Among them are education schools with their romantic progressivism &#8212; teachers should be mere &quot;enablers&quot; of group learning; self-esteem is a prerequisite for accomplishment, not a consequence thereof. Other opponents are the teachers unions and their handmaiden, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/related\/topic\/U.S.+Democratic+Party?tid=informline\">Democratic Party<\/a>. <strong>Today&#39;s liberals favor paternalism &#8212; you cannot eat trans fats; you must buy health insurance &#8212; for everyone <em>except<\/em> children. Odd.<\/strong> &nbsp; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>His argument would be better if he could find some representative liberal making that argument.&nbsp; But alas.&nbsp; Perhaps honesty is just too much to ask.   <\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/dailyhowler.com\/dh082208.shtml\">here&#39;s<\/a> a more enlightening discussion of the same piece. &nbsp;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the never begun quest to figure out why our children isn&#39;t learning, George Will hits upon the answer: Unfortunately, powerful factions fiercely oppose the flourishing. Among them are education schools with their romantic progressivism &#8212; teachers should be mere &quot;enablers&quot; of group learning; self-esteem is a prerequisite for accomplishment, not a consequence thereof. Other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=789\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stop contradicting yourself<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[275,129,274,1964],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-will","category-straw-man","tag-charter-schools","tag-george-will","tag-paternalism","tag-straw-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}