Message-ID: <199701042218.AA25700@mail.crl.com> Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 14:17:21 -0800 From: Gary Berlind <mailto:gberlind@CRL.COM> To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
***After lurking silently these many months, I just want to say three cheers for JC and Brett for their clarity, frankness, and understanding of this most important of issues. I hope that Dr. Eskow and others who haven't yet started to doubt what they're doing take a good close look at this opposing viewpoint, and/or read some books along the lines of Gerry Mander's "In the Absence of the Sacred" or Chellis Glendinning's "My Name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization."Gary Berlind Berkeley, CA
mailto:>EUNSteve@AOL.COM wrote: >
>
>> If Brett is right, and anthropology students believe their discipline
>> demonstrates that illiterates might be better off without the alphabet, why
>> fund and staff literacy programs?
>
>You are twisting my words to suit your own ends. I never said that people
>would "be
>better off" without the alphabet, I merely stated that literacy in and of
>itself will not
>solve the problems facing many third world cultures. What will help these
>peoples is
>when the industrialized nations stop mining these countries for cheap natural
>resources and labor. Teaching a sub-saharan bushman snowmobile maintainance is
>not likely to be of any real benefit, nor is teaching a landless, starving,
>peasant farmer
>how to read going to be of any real benefit--we should focus on why he/she is
>starving and landless, no?
>
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>B. Diamond