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John A Wood's avatar

Thank you Barry for another powerful article. Your kindness, understanding, wisdom and common sense is clear within that power. John

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Tom Billings's avatar

In the summer of 1965, at an informal day seminar in a Reed College room, I listened to the opposite of this article. It was a discussion of "Critical Theory", from which much of graduate and undergraduate, and even High School teaching, is derived. Its basis was repeated again and again by the old German fellow giving the seminar:

"*All* human relationships are based on the relative power of the individuals and groups involved."

I tried to give it credit, at the age of 14, but it was far too much like what someone had tried to use to justify an attempt to kill me, 3 years earlier. Within 3 months, I settled on it being an attempt to normalize sociopathy. It is, by now at the core of much non-STEM teaching in university, in "critical legal studies" and in "critical race theory". Worse, it is working its way into "guiding" STEM applications.

I find your article one of the few excellent anodynes to such sociopathic advocacy.

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