Idiot Teacher Asked 4th-Graders to Give 3 Good Reasons for Slavery

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54. I like the assignment, but don't think it's age appropriate.

Chris Hughes wrote a brilliant article for The Nation in which he explained exactly the amount of wealth that the South was "asked" to divest itself of (slaves). He was looking at it from an amoral perspective just to see how the Southerners saw the North's demands.

It was great argument and Hughes applied it to what we are asking the oil companies to divest themselves of, much in oil fields already claimed and "paid for." (Three trillion, I think he wrote.)

Thinking in this fashion, we might understand what we are asking the petroleum industry relinquish and begin to find way to effect their transition (by, for instance, giving them certain rights to green technology).

If we ignore what we are asking of them, change can only be more difficult.

Critical thinking that gets us out of "the box" can only be beneficial.

I'm an old college prof, so I'm not sure the assignment is good before a certain age.