-=> Quoting Sheila King to Michael Martinez <=-
 SK> Regarding Illich's book _ABC: Alphabetization of the Popular Mind_
 SK> you wrote:
 
 SK> I would probably enjoy this book much more. The study of language and
 SK> linguistics is fascinating to me (this was my subject area in my
 SK> undergrad work).
Yes, you'll definitely love ABC.  Deschooling Society is probably too
socialistic for you.  But ABC is definitely a wild, interesting book.
 
 SK> However, I might get around to it eventually. Have you heard of
 SK> Jonathan Kozol's book _Savage Inequalities_?
I've heard of Kozol but I haven't read him.
 SK> few years back. It is supposed to be a very good book that details the
 SK> injustices in the ed system between the haves and the have-nots.
yeah, probably Illich is where I heard him from.
So, _Amazing Grace_ is good?
 SK> It sure rings a bell. Probably from my linguistics studies...I must've
 SK> heard of him then.
 
 -> He's a brilliant, rational, fairly uncreative (unartistic) man.
 SK> How can someone be brilliant and uncreative? I always find that
 SK> brilliant people tend to be creative.
 
I mean like artistically or aesthetically creative.  Chomksy's creative
with logic, but that's science not art.  I don't think he could 
write a good book of fiction if his life depended on it.  In fact, he
tends to cop a superior attitude and look down on literature, which 
means he just doesn't have a complete picture of life.
-mike
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