Foucault & Chmsky ( Was Re: [lbo-talk] Prose Style, was Time to Get Religion)

[Tayssir John Gabbour]

On 12/16/06, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> And then I checked out the text by Feynman that
> Tayssir recommends, in which I find the following passage:
>
> ****But then I began to think, what else is there that we believe? (And
> I thought then about the witch doctors, and how easy it would have been
> to check on them by noticing that nothing really worked.) So I found
> things that even more people believe, such as that we have some
> knowledge of how to educate. There are big schools of reading methods
> and mathematics methods, and so forth, but if you notice, you'll see the
> reading scores keep going down -- or hardly going up -- in spite of the
> fact that we continually use these same people to improve the methods.
> There's a witch doctor remedy that doesn't work. It ought to be looked
> into; how do they know that their method should work? Another example is
> how to treat criminals. We obviously have made no progress -- lots of
> theory, but no progress -- in decreasing the amount of crime by the
> method that we use to handle criminals.****

By the way though, if you do know for a fact that Feynman was wrong
about education/prisons for 1974 (or thereabouts), I'd be grateful for
any corrections.

Tayssir