Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihnss.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!ihnss!warren From: warren@ihnss.UUCP (Warren Montgomery) Newsgroups: net.origins,net.politics Subject: Re: Education of creationists' children Message-ID: <2319@ihnss.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 14:00:11 EST Article-I.D.: ihnss.2319 Posted: Wed Nov 28 14:00:11 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 29-Nov-84 04:39:40 EST References: <886@ihuxn.UUCP> <1231@dciem.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 26 Children ought to learn the lesson that different people have different opinions and tell them as if they were known facts as soon as possible in life. Keeping pseudo-science out of the classroom won't keep it off of the front page of every magazine in the checkout line in the grocery store (probably far more influential on young minds just learning to read it -:), and parents bent on keeping the evil influence of evolution away from their kids in school won't protect them from TV, printed media, friends, etc. People have to learn to reason for themselves who and what they are going to believe, whether the process is by scientific reasoning or blind faith. Religion versus science is not the only issue where judgement is needed. 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. -- Warren Montgomery ihnss!warren IH ((312)-979) x2494