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To: Tim Long

What Cato seems to advocate strikes me as only delaying the problem until students leave academia, at which point it gets even worse.

Suppose we shatter the education monolith into a cafeteria of botique specialty classes. Students enrolled in Pentecostal Biology 110 would not be allowed to take Baptist Geometry 105 or any other courses outside their religious track. Upon graduation, we would have a class of matriculates whose knowledge of history, science, and the arts is different for each track, conflicting, contradicting, but causing no problems because, since they were never in classes together, they never knew what the other guy believed.

Everyone wins. Parents are happy, students feel educated. The problem starts when the young adults go into the workplace and find themselves arguing constantly with everyone around them over everything, each believing what they were taught, seeing others as ill-informed.

IOW, what Cato would do is massively inflate the cost of schooling while delaying the struggle for ideas that will happen sooner or later.

Better, I'd think, to form a common worldview while young than have to start from scratch as an adult confronted with an unwelcome reality.


8 posted on 01/24/2007 3:45:02 PM PST by gcruse (http://garycruse.blogspot.com/)
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"Better, I'd think, to form a common worldview while young than have to start from scratch as an adult confronted with an unwelcome reality."

For most, that 'unwelcome reality' will come when they stand at the Great White Throne in judgement. There cannot be a common world view, and attempts to create one can only be deemed theocratic.

16 posted on 01/24/2007 8:38:29 PM PST by editor-surveyor
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To: gcruse
Better, I'd think, to form a common worldview while young than have to start from scratch as an adult confronted with an unwelcome reality.

But that isn't happening anyway, and where attempts are made to do that, the system drops to the lowest common denominator and mediocrity reigns.

There's a huge variety of public, private, Christian, Catholic, and other schools now and your doomsday scenario isn't happening.

22 posted on 01/24/2007 8:57:52 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: gcruse
The problem starts when the young adults go into the workplace and find themselves arguing constantly with everyone around them over everything, each believing what they were taught, seeing others as ill-informed.

I don't see your point. People in the workforce always disagree with one anonther and think that they were better educated then the other.

The fact of the matter is that in the "hard" sciences, it doesn't matter what your origins belief is to be able to do excellent work. I work with chemists and engineers who have differing origins beliefs, but still perform their jobs.

I can only think of one place, off hand, where origins beliefs create a big stir....Academia. In the real world of working science, origins beliefs doesn't really matter, either way.

Sincerely
32 posted on 01/25/2007 4:29:41 AM PST by ScubieNuc (I have no tagline. I wish I did. If I did, it would probably be too long and not fit completely on t)
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To: gcruse
to form a common worldview while young than have to start from scratch as an adult confronted with an unwelcome reality.

Evolution is not "reality". It's speculation. What you are saying is you want my tax dollars to fund propaganda being shoved down the throats of my children to indoctrinate them to your viewpoint (and many scientists admitedly) because the childs minds are much more pliable when they are young. In other words -- brainwashing.

61 posted on 01/25/2007 4:24:02 PM PST by plain talk
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