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Originally Posted by Boreas
All of a piece with this gem.
If this keeps up, and I see no reason that it won't, we'll have raised a generation of children totally unprepared to compete in the real world.
John |
We just may already be close to that point. Aren't these private schools promoting the creationism? On the opposite side, we have the educational industry, teacher's unions, and asssorted political groups all attempting to get their pet interests in the school systems. The myriad of subjects has done much to undermine education to the extent that our colleges are forced to teach remedial english and math to an ever increasing number of inbound freshman. Do we really need all the variety of subjects at the secondary level or would it be better to focus on English, mathematics, history, literature, and logic? I, of course, point an extended finger toward the expansion of social science programs in our schools usurping dollars and time from more worthy studies, or rather, from studies that are more useful for maintaining one's knowledge.
Creationism ought be kept out of our science classes precisely because matters of faith are not subject to the scientific method; and that, the method itself encompasses the entire meaning and concomitant effectiveness of science as a discipline.