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To: js1138
to disseminate factually incorect statements and require students to memorize them

In ninth-grade journalism (English) units, students are often given factually incorrect statements and pictures to study propaganda.

204 posted on 03/14/2004 2:05:09 PM PST by cornelis
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To: cornelis
In ninth-grade journalism (English) units, students are often given factually incorrect statements and pictures to study propaganda.

I have no problem with that, as long as the statements are within the students' ability to check and reason about.

But when someone asserts from a position of authority that there is a scientific controversy over the lack of transitional fossils, that is both factually incorrect and insidious. When someone asserts from a position of authority that the lack of detailed knowledge of a historical incident is equivalent to challenging a theoretical framework, then that is just educational incompetence. It is the opposite of critical thinking.

205 posted on 03/14/2004 2:17:35 PM PST by js1138
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