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To: frankw1900 who wrote (39910)4/17/2004 9:05:10 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 793745
 
The problem for us, and the major part of the Muslim world, is that madrassas teach a curriculum which is about 1000 years out of date. The basic curriculum position is to teach a belief in the superiority of faith and rulers over reason and self rule. Thus science and critical thinking have negative value in this scheme. This is a position which was totally out of date in Europe by 1600

This is an unfair slam on the European Middle Ages. Don't forget that Aristotle (in Latin translation), St. Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas were very influential philosophers for the High Middle Ages. The use of argument, reasoning and rhetoric stood high in medieval curricula.
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