They've done such a wonderful job of it, after all...
Teaching cultural/philosophical issues like evolution is not education; it's indoctrination.
Fixed that for you. :)
Actually editor-surveyor, I don't think the teaching of evolution is the problem here.
In other words, in my view the problem consists of what sort of evolution is being taught, not so much the teaching of evolution per se.
People who think evolution is a material, random process; and people who think evolution is the presently-existing partial fulfillment of God's Will for His Creation, not yet complete, are bound to differ about the foundations, or the Truth, of reality.
I gather that's what the current "public dialogue" is all about. (At least I hope so; we face such grave challenges at the present time it seems....)
BTW, do you really have a beef WRT the teaching of "philosophical/cultural issues" in the secondary schools and institutions of higher learning, in principle??? If so, WHY???
Thank you ever so much for writing, editor-surveyor, and for the ping!
Exactly, because its become a scam.. it ceased being a "business" ages ago.. Even as a business it was lacking business principles... but as a scam.. its parasitic.. and maleficent..
Interesting article here, in this regard ... I recommend following the link in the article to Gatto's stuff too.
ML/NJ
Thanks for the ping!
They've done such a wonderful job of it, after all...
Teaching cultural/philosophical issues like evolution is not education; it's indoctrination.
.... Anti-semitism was the overwhelming topic in every school curriculum. Indeed, the propaganda picture books published by Der Stürmer, the organ responsible for the dissemination of many of the anti-semitic publications during the Hitler years, demonstrate that anti-semitism was taught before children "were six or seven or eight."
No single target of nazification took higher priority than Germany's young. By 1937, 97% of all teachers belonged to the National Socialist Teachers' Union. Every member of this union had to submit an ancestry table in triplicate with official documents of proof. Courses and textbooks in Nazi schools reflected the aims of Hitler. Of the topics that teachers were required to treat, the most important was racial theory and, by extention, the Jewish problem. In The National Socialist Essence of Education, a German educator wrote that mathematics was "Aryan spiritual property; .. an expression of the nordic fighting spirit, of the nordic struggle for the supremacy of the world..."[1] An example of racial propaganda in a math problem is the following: "The Jews are aliens in Germany--in 1933 there were 66,060,000 inhabitants in the German Reich, of whom 499,682 were Jews. What is the per cent of aliens?"[2]
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/m/mills-mary/mills-00.html
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Quotes of Adolf Hitler "I begin with the young. We older ones are used up. We are rotten to the marrow. We are cowardly and sentimental. We are bearing the burden of a humiliating past, and have in our blood the dull recollection of serfdom and servility. But my magnificent youngsters! Are there any finer ones in the world? Look at these young men and boys! What material! With them, I can make a new world. This is the heroic stage of youth. Out of it will come the creative man, the man-god." "When an opponent declares, 'I will not come over to your side,' I say calmly, 'Your child belongs to us already...What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing but this new community'." "...Knowledge would spoil my young people. I prefer that they learn only what they pick up by following their own play instinct. But they must learn self-control. I will have them master the fear of death through the most difficult trials. That is the heroic stage of youth. Out of it will grow the stage of the free man, a human being who is the measure and center of the world." "The German youth must be slender and supple, fast as a greyhound, tough as leather, and hard as Krupp steel. He must learn to do without, to endure criticism and injustice, to be reliable, discreet, decent, and loyal." |