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9/18/2018 6:08 am  #1


You Tell 'em, Betsy

Betsy DeVos Tells Students Not to ‘Be Nasty’ and Hide Behind Twitter Handles

Philadelphia (AP) -- Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Monday encouraged students to engage others with respect and not to "be nasty"
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Part of the problem, she said, is that as a nation "we have abandoned truth," and it's now often seen as a personal point of view.

"Learning is about thinking, reasoned argument and discovering facts," she said. "If there is no objective truth, then there is no real learning."


You could cut the irony with a knife. 

 


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
 

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