Bernadette Joy
Jul 30, 2017 · 1 min read

A student told me that the most valuable course he took in high school was Theory of Knowledge, a required element of the International Baccalaureate diploma program. “It taught me how to think and to use evidence to make an argument. And it made me look at what other people said carefully.”

A group of students asked me to sponsor them in the Socratic Club. They met for an hour after school once a week to talk philosophy. They didn’t need me there and when I joined them I just asked questions and clarified what I heard from time to time. It was a mixed group, boys/girls, members of the football (soccer — of course) team, members of no team. Long hair, short hair, all nationalities, several religions and no religion.

They were a breath of fresh air and a sure ray of hope in this world that judges on a dime, without a shred of evidence, or even discounting all evidence, merely thinking makes it right, the having of the idle flimsy thought is enough to give it righteous substance.

Dear me, no wonder the sexoromantical fantasy is the genre of our time.

I lust therefor I am. Or — Feed the need. Or — Just do it. our slogans are us. And, as Pogo so wryly observed, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”

Cheers,

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