Actor Richard Dreyfuss Searches for Serenity and Meaning
Richard Dreyfuss says that Baby Boomers living a longer and healthier life isn't just about "all of us being able to go scuba diving when we're 75." Dreyfuss has become an advocate for "civil discourse" and hopes to begin a national dialogue on the subject.
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Hello Mr. Dreyfuss,
Good luck on December 6th. I do hear your concerns, and I whole heartedly agree. I am a returning student at Kansas City Kansas Community College and I am very interested in ways to help turn our community around. If you have any hopeful news or ideas that might help spread "Civics" to our area I would be willing to help in any way. My name is Debra Michel. e-mail: dbrmichel@yahoo.com. Thanks for not just speaking more bs.
Freedom rings....dimly
:)Debra
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Finally, someone stands up and says we don't teach who we are.
I read earlier about your approach to civics and, if it is any help to your cause, I don't see that we are teaching this correctly in our schools because civics is actually a combination of history, ethics and how we develop a government which reflects the proper use of each. My son, after graduating from a private high school, turned to me one day and said in alarm, "Am I to understand that during the Second World War we were fighting in the Atlantic and the Pacitic at the same time?" When I said yes he was dumbfounded and asked why. I have been asked by his friends why Nixon was shot in Dallas???
The schools are teaching American History, Civics and ethics as though they are separate subjects and have nothing to do with each other. My feelings are that they should be taught as a unit (or three units which are intertwined and thereby cannot be pulled apart). History should show what happened which leads to a question of ethics which leads to how a government is set up in order to promote justice. And what happens when we fail to keep them together.
Thanks for listening
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