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Home-schooling special: Preach your children well
NewScientist.com ^
| 11 November 2006
| Amanda Gefter
Posted on 12/04/2006 8:31:37 AM PST by Sopater
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To: Sopater
To judge home-school applicants, they rely mostly on standardised tests of factual knowledge. Such tests cannot, however, reveal whether or not a student understands scientific method, a compulsory subject in public schools but not for home-schoolers.Interpretation: How can they be considered educated when they do not believe in darwinian evolution?
Apparently the author believes that to deny evolution is to deny or to be ignorant of the scientific method. Perhaps he is the one who needs to go back to school.
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12/07/2006 6:39:00 AM PST
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The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
To: The Ghost of FReepers Past; AndrewC; LadyNavyVet; DaveLoneRanger; wintertime
To judge home-school applicants, they rely mostly on standardised tests of factual knowledge. Such tests cannot, however, reveal whether or not a student understands scientific method, a compulsory subject in public schools but not for home-schoolers.
Evidently, NewScientist doesn't think its important to relate "factual knowledge" to the "scientific method".
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12/07/2006 7:54:28 AM PST
by
Sopater
(Creatio Ex Nihilo)
To: wintertime
Wow! I must be a slacker--my eldest is only starting college three years early. Congratulations on a job well done!
To: DaveLoneRanger
lol, the arrogance of these people. It might take all of 30 minutes to teach evolution, but it takes years to beat in into our children's heads (aka, brain washing). That is what they really want.
Think of the people years that are wasted teaching something that should only be taught for a few minutes in biology classes! All that time could be spent teaching relevant information; #bones in human body, how the nervous system works, value of good nutrition, etc.
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12/09/2006 9:09:08 AM PST
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FreeAtlanta
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To: Sopater
Proud father of a PHC student, here. I guarantee you that the average kid at PHC could wipe the floor with the average public high school science teacher in a discussion of Darwin's theory of evolution AND the many changes that have taken place in science theory over the past 140 years to gloss over the now-obvious mistakes Darwin made. What I mean is, the kids at PHC understand evolutionary theory better than the average science teacher. They simply don't accept it.
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12/16/2006 5:58:23 PM PST
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Timmy
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