Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site pur-phy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:pur-phy!act From: act@pur-phy.UUCP (Alex C. Tselis) Newsgroups: net.origins,net.politics Subject: Re: Education of creationists' children Message-ID: <1536@pur-phy.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 23:06:09 EST Article-I.D.: pur-phy.1536 Posted: Sat Dec 1 23:06:09 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 05:04:51 EST References: <886@ihuxn.UUCP> <1231@dciem.UUCP> <2319@ihnss.UUCP> Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., IN Lines: 13 > What about history texts and teachers that > belittle or ignore the contributions of large groups of people or > exaggerate others? (One of my most vivid childhood memories of > school is the fit my very conservative father threw over a > composition I wrote outlining the glorious accomplishments of FDR as > taught to us in school). How many of us never heard a teacher > express a political opinion, directly or indirectly? My advice to > concerned parents is to focus on teaching people HOW to think, not > WHAT to think. > This point about FDR is a very interesting one. I long ago learned that the reason General Lee gave General Grant his sword was so that General Grant could polish it for him! Another illusion shattered!!