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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (11627)	4/17/2001 1:49:15 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

what exactly are you taking me to task for? For these: I find it difficult to imagine teaching when one believes there is nothing to important to learn. Education as indoctrination is the logical consequence, since one cares not for truth, but for the promotion of an "enlightened" viewpoint. Both comments refer to the notion that education is impossible or irrelevant without reference to some absolute or external truth, a notion which I do not think valid. I see no reason to suppose that people who do not accept the notion of absolute or external truths believe that "there is nothing important to learn", or that they are attempting to indoctrinate anyone. If anything, I would suggest that education that presupposes the existence of absolute or external truth is far more likely to take on elements of indoctrination. This is true because we have no clear access to any absolute or external truths, and different individuals hold wildly different ideas of what such truths might be. In order to use a set of absolute or external truths as an element in education, we have to accept somebody's idea of what truths are the "real" ones, which means taking somebody's word for it. This is a situation much more conducive to indoctrination than reliance on multiple observation of similar phenomena.