Religion and schools: a query

Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us
Tue Aug 31 07:08:04 PDT 1999


The anarchist bumper sticker says "Question Authority". The Marxist bumper sticker says "Take Authority".

Charles Brown


>>> Sam Pawlett <rsp at uniserve.com> 08/31/99 01:37AM >>>
James Farmelant wrote:
> I take it then that you have not read much of Sagan.
> If you had read Sagan, you would realize that he
> very much valued the incalcation of skepticism towards
> authority (including scientific authorities) as being
> essential for a healthy democracy.
>

I remember reading somewhere that Sagan used to smuggle in copies of Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution whenever he went to the USSR.

Sam P.



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