tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540455309896852830.post4638234310841442078..comments2024-03-22T11:13:13.597-04:00Comments on Pauly's Templeton Watch: A Shocking Surprise! Paul Cosentinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00325436549523525836noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540455309896852830.post-90749851654726030052017-03-28T18:30:11.785-04:002017-03-28T18:30:11.785-04:00Here's a great article on what we are getting ...Here's a great article on what we are getting for our money with public schools. <br /><br /> 227 Autonomous Technology: The Underground History of Amercian Education by John Taylor Gatto from archive.org<br /><br />Autonomous Technology <br /><br /><br /><br />The simple truth is there is no way to control this massive corporate/school thing from <br />the human end. It has to be broken up. It has become a piece of autonomous technology. <br />Its leadership is bankrupt in ideas. Merchants are merchants, not moral leaders or <br />political ones. It surely is a sign of retrogression, not advance, that we have forgotten <br />what the world's peoples knew forever. A merchant has the same right to offer his <br />opinion as I do, but it makes little sense for people who buy and sell soap and cigarettes <br />to tell you how to raise your kid or what to believe in. No more sense than it does for a <br />pedagogue to do the same. How would a huckster who pushes toothpaste, a joker who <br />vends cigarettes, or a video dream peddler know anything about leading nations or raising <br />children correctly? Are these to be the Washingtons, Jacksons, and Lincolns of the <br />twenty-first century? <br /><br />The timeless core of Western tradition, which only the cowardly and corrupt would wish <br />to surrender, shows that we can't grow into the truth of our own nature without local <br />traditions and values at the center of things. We do not do well as human beings in those <br />abstract associations for material advantage favored by merchants called networks, or in <br />megalithic systems, whether governmental, institutional, or corporate. In his book An <br />Open Life, Joseph Campbell put his finger on the heart of the matter: <br /><br />[It is] an Oriental model. One of the typical things of the Orient is that any criticism <br />disqualifies you for the guru's instruction. Well in heaven's name, is that appropriate for <br />a Western mind? It's simply a transferring of your submission to a childhood father onto <br />a father for your adulthood. Which means you're not growing up.... The thing about the <br />guru in the West is that he represents an alien principle, namely, that you don't follow <br />your own path, you follow a given path. And that's totally contrary to the Western spirit! <br />Our spirituality is of the individual quest, individual realization — authenticity in your <br />own life out of your own center, (emphasis added) <br /><br />Mario Savio, the 1960s campus radical, stood once on the steps of Sproul Hall, Berkeley, <br />and screamed: <br /><br />There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick <br />at heart that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put <br />your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus <br />and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who own it that <br />unless you are free the machine will be prevented from working at all. <br /><a href="http://templeton01436.blogspot.com/2017/03/227-autonomous-technology-underground.html" rel="nofollow">Continued</a>Baldwin Templetonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14033373330060833423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540455309896852830.post-70474530883249365552017-03-28T18:17:21.398-04:002017-03-28T18:17:21.398-04:00bob m: thats what I've said for years. the sch...bob m: thats what I've said for years. the school budget runs this town. the board is mostly retired teachers that think that money educates. teachers do. if they spent more time teaching and less time brain washing them we would all be better of. it is not the only budget in town !!! driscoll will d o nothing to help the town. we know that from past experience. if it wasn't for have 3 butt kissers on the board, he'd be gone. until we get rid of them, we are screwed !!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15327386206593034482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540455309896852830.post-48466845013446718052017-03-28T15:15:38.731-04:002017-03-28T15:15:38.731-04:00Refund Refund read all about it call and ask Dris...Refund Refund read all about it call and ask Driscoll general manager of TMLWP<br /><br />Refund in 2017 from only one is 500,000.00 <br />reduction for power costs for last 2 years at 100,000.00 each year.<br />I see it as at least 700,000.00 for the year of 2017.<br />As we pay off the loans for the nuke plants we get the power at a cheaper rate.<br />Sorry i meant to write they get it at a cheaper rate.<br />Don't think they will share it with the leadership we have now.dave smarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08305597475972037615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540455309896852830.post-14390919864489403212017-03-28T10:42:58.795-04:002017-03-28T10:42:58.795-04:00I have an idea. Can someone please tell the NRSD t...I have an idea. Can someone please tell the NRSD the answer to the increase is NO, you get 2 1/2 period.<br /><br />It's time the school started living on a realistic budget. I'm sick and tired of the Town being punished for mismanaged funds at the school.Bob Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00817899562809752697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540455309896852830.post-69839121237713875462017-03-28T09:46:03.654-04:002017-03-28T09:46:03.654-04:00Like I have said, there had better be a "Plan...Like I have said, there had better be a "Plan B". Somehow our selectmen do not get the fact that we are not rolling in dough. Carter does know that, but it did not stop him from getting a raise in pay when his time as TA was extended. One more time, spending money that we do not have. How deep will the hole be by the time he is gone ?Bev.Bart.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04836117776019339626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540455309896852830.post-65430063303740771382017-03-28T06:09:55.785-04:002017-03-28T06:09:55.785-04:00Education is the best value for the buck. Schooli...Education is the best value for the buck. Schooling is a total waste of money and time. Which one do you think we have?Baldwin Templetonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14033373330060833423noreply@blogger.com