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Yeah, I've met the Robert Alter who teaches Bible at Berkeley, and the guy who wrote this letter is not him. I would stake a lot of money on that.
That aside, aside from the fact that he's a little heavy on the sanctimoniousness of his anti-Western Society-ism, the dude's not entirely wrong about American education. It's a crap system, and it teaches way too many of the wrong things. My kids will be going to private school, and even then I can already think of a laundry list of things I'll have to be on my toes to counteract and train them out of when they bring it home from school....
Also, just because this guy mentioned the word "vagina" and admitted he didn't want American schools to instill his daughter with the idiotic puritanistic sex and body issues that plague our society doesn't mean he's a child molester. I mean, seriously, that's just ridiculous!
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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