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Love that cartoon! But even the comment beneath it points out that it's more relevant today the it was in 1985. Not because children were all fountains of independent thought back then, I'm sure, but because the price of wrong-think wasn't so devastating.

The joke in the cartoon is that the teacher *wanted* the kids to think for themselves. I think that's far less the case today. And even if the individual teachers do, the school boards don't.

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