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Talking Karl, Sounding Like Groucho

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19960926
Author:Steve Twomey

So I was reading one of the local newspapers and found an interesting letter to the editor. The writer was discussing a new educational philosophy being implemented in the Fairfax County public schools. He traced its roots to Karl Marx.

A few weeks later, another letter writer in the same paper said the new approach was "modeled after a program known as polytechnical education from the Soviet Union." Still another letter in another paper said it was "modeled after Stalinist Russia's polytechnic programs (which were even, in part, copied by Hitler's Nazis)."

Boy, do I feel stupid. An ...

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