Idaho Senate: Bill Would Require All Students To Read 'Atlas Shrugged' (spokesman, high school)

[Nicholas van Rijn]

Offered without comment.

Bill requires all Idaho kids to read 'Atlas Shrugged' - Spokesman.com - Feb. 5, 2013

Coeur d’Alene Sen. John Goedde, chairman of the Idaho Senate’s Education Committee, introduced legislation Tuesday to require every Idaho high school student to read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” and pass a test on it to graduate from high school.

[urbanlife78]

So they can indoctrinate children into the Republican party?

[mmmjv]

Originally Posted by Nicholas van Rijn

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Bill requires all Idaho kids to read 'Atlas Shrugged' - Spokesman.com - Feb. 5, 2013

Can you say propaganda? Ayn Rand was of the opinion that the wealthy are gods and the working people are a bunch of losers

[Don Draper]

Originally Posted by mmmjv

Can you say propaganda? Ayn Rand was of the opinion that the wealthy are gods and the working people are a bunch of losers

Wasn't she an atheist?

[pknopp]

This is a great argument to show why so many of us have argued that education should be left at the local level.

[2nd trick op]

Rand would have strongly opposed this measure, because her value system revolved, first, foremost and last, around an absooute minimum limit upon the state's power to coerce.

If you read the article a bit more closely, it becomes clear that Mr. Goedde is merely playing semantic games. But the more-simplistic of his groupies need to read a bit more of the philosophy underpinning Rand's reasoning; because as Rand herself said, "When you arrive at a contradiction, examine your premises, because at least one of them is false."

But then, you can say the same thing about all the self-procaimed "Liberals" here. And they have much bigger plans for everyone who isn't sufficiently Politically Correct.

[Toyman at Jewel Lake]

Interesting idea...but how many kids are going to shut the iPhone off long enough to read an 1100 page novel?

At least it's more intelligent than "An Inconvenient (Un)Truth".

[A&M_Indie_08]

Originally Posted by urbanlife78

So they can indoctrinate children into the Republican party?

To counter the indoctrination of kids in the Northeast to the Democrat party....

[Woof]

Showboating. He doesn't expect it to pass.

[kidkaos2]

Originally Posted by mmmjv

Can you say propaganda? Ayn Rand was of the opinion that the wealthy are gods and the working people are a bunch of losers

It's no worse than that other thread about the teacher who required all her white students to write letters of apology for slavery.