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To: cosmicforce who wrote (247681)	3/19/2014 11:19:40 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542059

I got more out of my afternoons in the library in undirected learning than from any hour in school or church, though...... Yes... I read three sets of encyclopaedia by age 10 or 11.. OK sure I was a bit nerdy LOL OTOH I skipped a grade in school because they figured out I was bored... I would sleep through early elementary school and still aced everything :O) koan is almost on the right track about thinking.... that is what school should teach you if nothing else.. reality though IMO is what you are saying about dogma... I doubt the majority come out having learned that critical skill...

To: cosmicforce who wrote (247681)

3/20/2014 12:23:04 AM

From: koan

Respond to of 542059

What you say is totally foreign to me. My entire clan has had a much different experience. Everyone in my clan went and taught at public schools. Most have advanced degrees in science and law. We are all huge supporters of public schools.

Everyone is for public schools big time and none of the kids go to church. Everyone is also very liberal and works for all the liberal causes.

Many of us have worked among the best and brightest (so we know what they think) and we all credit our public education to our enlightenment. And none of us to my knowledge have met anyone who was super charged by going to church. None of us take our kids to church. No one. We don't want the kids to be subjected to that.

We have met a ton who have been crippled by the church. Too many.

Ask almost any honest person how they were before college and how they were after college and they will say it is was night and day.

I feel that way and I know both my kids do. And they had big educations and rich intellectual environments long before college.

<<Schools share a common heritage and both teach dogma - sit in rows and do the same thing so you can become an interchangeable part and repeat the standard answer to a question. Do what we say, when we say it, and how we say it (in preparation for industry)... the institutions of education have not had a major makeover in more than 70 years and while the workplace is more collaborative, education is still about taking tests. Almost no other sector has evolved so little, except religion. The way we use math has changed. The way we use physics has changed. The way we teach has not really changed. There are exceptions known personally to me. But, my wife aside, most people do the things they do the same as they did last century.