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who is chatting on SOLO ChatThe Free RadicalPopular contentPollWhat should the government do about ailing financial institutions? Nothing, except to back off and get out—as any Objectivist knows, intervention is treating the disease with the disease 84% Intervene judiciously—enough to avert a catastrophe that is otherwise imminent 3% Intervene massively—as it's doing 3% Nationalize the whole economy and be done with it. Bring on the USSA! 1% Something else (specify) 9% Total votes: 76
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ARI Press Release: $43,000 to Winners of "The Fountainhead" Essay Contest Submitted by Ayn Rand Center on Fri, 2008-08-08 23:11.
Ayn Rand Institute Press Release $43,000 to Winners of "The Fountainhead" Essay Contest IRVINE, CA--High school senior Ryan Holley, from Burlington, IA, is the winner of the Ayn Rand Institute's annual "Fountainhead" essay contest, for which he received a prize of $10,000. Open to high school juniors and seniors, the "Fountainhead" essay contest requires contestants to write on one of several topics dealing with the characters and themes in the novel. The contest is designed to promote critical thinking and writing skills. Essays are judged on both style and content. The following students have won this year's second and third prizes: Shea Levy, 12th Grade, New York, NY In addition to the $30,000 awarded to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners, other finalists and semifinalists received a total of $13,000. ======= First published in 1943, "The Fountainhead" offers the vision of a totally independent man, architect Howard Roark, who stands against society's conventions. Since 1985 a total of more than 190,000 high school students from around the world have entered ARI essay contests. This year, more than 5,000 students submitted their essays on "The Fountainhead." Each year ARI awards more than $57,000 in prizes to high school students and has given away more than a half a million dollars to contest winners during the past 23 years. Information about next year's competition can be found at http://aynrand.org/contests. Media inquiries: media@aynrand.org
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Winning Essays
I finally found the essay winners referenced in an old Impact you can find it here: Essay Winners
Wm
One more thing...
If you are opposed to government interference/involvement in schools then you shouldn't support government interference/involvement in schools.
Valliant defender
... of injustice.
It would be unjust to prevent the promotion of objectivism in schools where its promotion is the will of the board and the board is acting according to the will of the parents.
In the same way it would be unjust to prevent a school promoting any other ideas.
Cheers,
Reed.
That Is...
.. exactly what they doing -- and should be doing.
These novels really do represent important philosophy and literature, you know... If we read Dickens and Melville and Steinbeck and Shakespeare and Tolstoy(!) in school, we should also read Rand.
If the Psalms are read as ancient poetry and the Books of Kings are read as ancient history, I have no problem teaching the Bible, either, Reed.
And even if these sources advocate something about religion.
However, under American law, such literature cannot be used as means of religious instruction.
This is, of course, hard to pin-down -- and the impossibility of avoiding the subject of values and beliefs in education is only one of the problems with public education as such.
But at least publicly-financed schools are prohibited, to some degree, from using the classroom as a vehicle for religious propagandizing.
Promoting Objectivism
Yes, they are. Through the essay contest which is talked about above and through the free book program
Wm
They're not promoting
They're not promoting objectivism in public schools are they?