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Politics : Evolution
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To: jlallen who wrote (58500)9/24/2014 9:22:32 AM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) of 69300
 
"School is supposed to be about ideas.......all kinds of ideas.....some better than others....

Its only the very weak of mind that are afraid of ideas to which they do not subscribe...."

That is nonsense.

Schools purport to give the kids the best factual opinions known to date. The don't teach that 2+2=5 is just as valid as 2+2=4. Nor do they teach it is more valid. Teachers are supposed to be learned authorities. Their job is to nurture young minds by teaching them critical teaching skills that arrive at known conclusions. When the children go off course, it is the duty of teachers to give them guidance toward correct ports of call. All ideas are NOT equally valid--or we would be jumping out of planes without parachutes and eating arsenic for lunch.

So let us not be ridiculous. Teaching that the earth and the universe are the same age (see quote) or "nurturing disdain" toward the secular world is not healthy for children and it is not healthy for society. Children deserve to have their shoddy and unexamined ideas looked at critically...and properly assessed by trained and qualified persons. That does not mean they should not examine other ideas such as the biblical idea that one can live in the belly of a great fish or handle poisonous snakes if one simply has "faith" in those things. But it means that irrational and wrong ideas need to be pointed out by the teacher. Otherwise, education is worthless and we are paying teachers for nothing.

And we ARE paying teachers. And it is NOT simply to watch the kids reach erroneous conclusions and mangle logic without correction.

My post pointed out that LIES WERE BEING PRESENTED AS FACTS. That is NOT education. Not hardly...

"A POLITICO review of hundreds of pages of course outlines, textbooks and school websites found that many of these faith-based schools go beyond teaching the biblical story of the six days of creation as literal fact. Their course materials nurture disdain of the secular world, distrust of momentous discoveries and hostility toward mainstream scientists."

Secularism is the principle of the separation of government institutions and persons mandated to represent the state from religious institutions.
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