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To: donh
"A great deal of indoctrination is necessary to teach children what they need to know to become effective adults. Pure curiosity won't make a child memorize 30 spelling words every day, nor learn his multiplication tables."

Are you suggesting that "pure curiousity" is the antithesis of indoctrination?

1,981 posted on 01/01/2003 5:43:45 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Fester Chugabrew
Are you suggesting that "pure curiousity" is the antithesis of indoctrination?

No. I am suggesting that teaching children what we think they need to know to take an adult's place in the world is not primarily an exercise in intellectual equality between peers--it is adults making and enforcing unilateral decisions upon somewhat resistant unformed minds. If you don't think teaching them about the present state of science should be part of that curriculum, I can go along with that. If you do, I can go along with that.

What I cannot abide, is teaching them something is science (or somehow mysteriously "stands on par" with science), when it isn't. ID is not science--it fails nearly every qualification exam anyone has ever thought of. I personally happen to think it is the best fit of the currently available facts, and I can and have gone over why that is at length, but I am not deluded into thinking that this notion has the detailed, critically diciplined evidenciary trail behind it that it now takes to qualify as a modern science.

2,136 posted on 01/02/2003 2:02:20 AM PST by donh
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