I think that science does constitute objective truth, or rather an approximation to it, and therefore should be taught. I think that history is reasonable objective, and supplemented by literature and the social science says a great deal about human beings and their communities. I have no idea what you are ranting about in the first paragraph.
In the second paragraph, supposing that common morality were a "lesson learned through experience", that would, to me, make it an objective truth. You may have noticed that I am not very particular about how one arrives at a conception of morality, and that I focus on what is mainly consensual. I think that it is the primary business of the school to teach the ordinary syllabus: math, science, social studies, English, with art, music, and other subjects for enrichment. In the course of doing that, inevitably one conveys a moral viewpoint, but I should say that is subordinate to teaching the multiplication tables or the several continents.
Now, what exactly are you taking me to task for? |
