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From: esk@wucs.UUCP (Eric Kaylor)
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Subject: Re: teaching evolution
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Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 22:43:42 EST
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From	Warren Montgomery	(ihnss!warren)
> My advice to concerned parents is to focus on teaching people HOW 
> to think, not WHAT to think.

It is not possible to teach the HOW without the WHAT.  Intelligence
needs knowledge to work best.  Of course, people learn things from
direct experience as well as communication, but refusing to teach
a child facts would, as far as I can see, be a disaster.  I would
say that the key is to teach the "what" undogmatically, and
encourage children to examine it -- *after* their critical abilities
have risen to the challenge.

			--Paul V. Torek, ihnp4!wucs!wucec1!pvt1047
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