Posted on 03/03/2015 4:35:14 PM PST by Faith Presses On
What would you say if you found out that our public schools were teaching children that it is not true that it’s wrong to kill people for fun or cheat on tests? Would you be surprised?
I was. As a philosopher, I already knew that many college-aged students don’t believe in moral facts. While there are no national surveys quantifying this phenomenon, philosophy professors with whom I have spoken suggest that the overwhelming majority of college freshmen in their classrooms view moral claims as mere opinions that are not true or are true only relative to a culture.
What I didn’t know was where this attitude came from. Given the presence of moral relativism in some academic circles, some people might naturally assume that philosophers themselves are to blame...
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A few weeks ago, I learned that students are exposed to this sort of thinking well before crossing the threshold of higher education. When I went to visit my son’s second grade open house, I found a troubling pair of signs hanging over the bulletin board. They read:
Fact: Something that is true about a subject and can be tested or proven.
Opinion: What someone thinks, feels, or believes.
(Excerpt) Read more at mobile.nytimes.com ...
Absolutes, morality, elucidated by the NY Slime? Nonsense.
Guest writer?
Must be.
This is how you make it OK for a man to sodomize young boys, people to to kill their children or elderly parents for convenience, and elect a traitor twice for President.
I have been homeschooling from the old McGuffy Readers and Bennett’s Book of Virtues. People laugh at the Readers and some of the material is laughable science wise, but nearly every reading has something to do with moral virtue.
Today’s students are hit over the head with finding their own way and question authority, but most in grade school and even high school, heck college, are not ready for such heady thinking, particularly if they have no grounding in any school of thought. It is very difficult to navigate from a moving point. Even if you discover your fixed point is wrong you still have a better reference than the moral relativism that pervades today’s thinking that every point is equally valid.
bkmk
Common core progressive post-modernism. The only reality is what you think, not what you see, hear, touch, smell, or taste. Many kids think Hitler was right.
I was explaining to my 14 year old the other day and said, this is the right way to do it - he said Dad, there is no right way to do things. I knew that was not “him” speaking it would have been a “teacher”
Enjoy the comments at the source. Proves the author right.
> the overwhelming majority of college freshmen in their classrooms view moral claims as mere opinions that are not true or are true only relative to a culture.
This society is building its next generations on sand. When the calamities of life hit these people, they, and the society, will crumble. Of course, we know what Jesus said about this subject in Matthew 7:24: “Whoever listens to my words and does them is like a man who built his house on the rock.” Too many children have never been taught these words, that would strengthen them for the challenges in this life and bless them in the next. Tragic.
It’s only the opinion of Jesus, don’t you know.
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The nugget I take out of this is that one clear goal of the public school syllabus is to deliberately deconstruct any attempt to train children in discerning both good and evil.
(That of course is the reason why access of parents to observe the process is blocked, and students are being encouraged to discredit parental moral training.)
They are regurgitating to their students what they were taught in college.
Homeschooling, catholics schools, and christian schools shield kids from the nightmare of public schools.
Most children have a very good moral sense. There world is full of right and wrong based on what is best for their community and on personal moral conviction. I guess nipping that in the bud is now seen as an essential part of early education.
I meant “their” sorry for the brain fart.
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