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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 09:16 AM EST |
| new insight on early spines
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| Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, January 16 2013 @ 03:51 PM EST |
What then should we teach? :-)
Given that the ONLY thing that can be proven true is maths and, to quote
Einstein, "in as much as mathematics is certain it bears no relationship to
reality".
The problem is that the media has brainwashed itself into believing there is
such a thing as "truth". imho we need to teach classics and philosophy
- both subjects now despised by the modern media.
I've mentioned it before, but apparently a survey was done on "education in
classics" a year or so back. Given that the typical response rate to an
unsolicited random survey is lucky to reach 5%, what do you make of a survey
where OVER FIFTY PERCENT of solicited people responded to say "yes my
classics education made a very positive difference to my life".
As for philosophy, I used to think it was junk. I've changed my mind ...
But I'm rambling. At the end of the day, what education SHOULD do is give
children the opportunity to make their own minds up. What it typically does is
brainwash them ...
(Incidentally, I strongly suspect all this creationist stuff is a by-product of
the US's unofficial (because it's unconstitutional, but not for want of trying
by the ACLU) official atheism. I think we would have no problem at all teaching
creationism as part of R.E. or R.S. or whatever the subject is called, but I
suspect it just gets ignored.
Cheers,
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