Should We Teach All The Viewpoints In School, And Let The Kids Decide?
Should we teach all the viewpoints in school, and let the kids decide?
For example -
Chemistry – Alchemy
Astronomy – Astrology
Physics – Magic
Neurology – Phrenology
Evolution – Intelligent Design
You forgot:
Biological reproduction – Stork theory
Thumbs Down? HA HA ! Good! Why not? Proverbs 22:6, Ephesians 6…Train up a Child In the Way he/she must go and when they are Old will Not depart from it. If you are Worried about religious values…Teach them about God Before they get to School and out in the World, If that’s what you choose. Better they hear about it from You than someone else First.
There Is a Vast Difference Between Scince, Religion and the Mystics! Most of the Scientific Basics have been proven without Doubt. No Science Is Exact and other Sciences are Theory! ( Evolution/Intelligent Design)
Alchemy, magic, voodoo, Numerology, Phrenology (studying Bumps on the Head) and Astrology should be elective choice. They Should Know the History behind it and How it led to the Science we have now. They Should Know what each Is in order to make Valid decisions. These are Not in that Scientific realm
Your Children are Going to hear lies as well as Truth in the World, Whether it be through Television , Radio, Print Ads or from other people. Better That You make them aware, before they get oout into this big old Mean world….They are Naturally Curious about the world around them and what makes it Work.
Should we get rid of Sex Education too?
How about that? Statistics Show It has not diminished out of Wed lock pregnancies or Venereal Diseases.
I don’t think it would be a good idea. Let’s face it, with over 6000 religions in the world on top of all the occult, metaphysical and esoteric teachings there are in the world, how would it be possible?
Then you would have to consider the qualifications of the people to teach it. I don’t know about you, but personally, I’d rather your every day lay teacher would NOT teach such serious topics that would HAVE to be taught by qualified people. We definately wouldn’t want to have johnny learning false teachings and information because the fundamentalist christian was put in charge of teaching him Alchemic symbols.
I think parents should hold the responsbility to teaching children at home, and if the children want to pursue something on their own later on, great. If they are to learn a certain path before that, spirit will bring a teacher.. I know I had one
No. I feel that things like Alchemy, astrology, magic etc etc… should all be researched on your own times not in school. Most of those things are dismissed as false or superstitions and really have no place in school.
HOWEVER they could be offered as extra classes or something just not as fact or science and not mandatory.
If someone wants their kids to grow up to be ignorant, fine. We need people to clean toilets. My kids will grow up knowing how things really work. I don’t want them to be exposed to pseudoscience because some religious nut has a hard on for spreading his faith.
What if your child picks the wrong one and ends
up in hell?You better teach the children the truth because the devil is lurking in the shadows.He
knows that time is short.
Don’t forget flat Earth geography.
We teach solidly tested science. The same Conservatives complain about teaching people who aren’t just like they want them to be that they have value. Their opinions on education lack merit.
i think that the kids should decide because it would give them a little responsibility and then they couldnt say that it was a boring class because they picked it!!
No, all your other viewpoints have been debunked or judged not to be scientific. To teach them in public school would be misleading the children.
I think that is a really good idea. It might be a bit confusing though depending on ehat age you started teaching different viewpoints.
Don’t forget this important subset of Physics / Magic:
Gravity – Intelligent Falling
Exactly why we should only teach accepted scientific ideas. You’ve hit the nail on the head.
I certainly thing that there should be a discussion of differing ideas.
NO!
We teach science and fact.
There is plenty of time in a persons life that they can fill their head with superstitious nonsense.
Only accepted science.
You missed the raging debate over Statistics vs Numerology
When I was in school they taught us how to read, and showed us how to find books on a variety of subjects in any library
Yes, as long as all subjects are taught objectively.
That depends what kind of school it is.
Science is a lot different from all those mystical things you mentioned there. Have you not taken Science?
No.
No.
Of course!!
No. We’d be the laughing stock of the world and we’d set ourselves back 500 years.
no seperation of church and state in schools
religion should be taught at home
Why you have the brain pan of a stagecoach driver, my good man!
No, we should teach children facts and not scientific “best guesses” about what present evidence can tell us about what happened long ago when the only one to see and write about it was God.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth….26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
That way kids won’t grow up thinking that they are some cosmic accident with no purpose for being here other than to live for pleasure before being dumped in a cold grave. Or as William Shakespeare’s character Macbeth put it…
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.http://www.icr.org/article/455/
“We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, . . . in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated commitment to materialism. . . . we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counterintuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.”
The author of this frank statement is Richard Lewontin of Harvard. Since evolution is not a laboratory science, there is no way to test its validity, so all sorts of justso stories are contrived to adorn the textbooks. But that doesn’t make them true! An evolutionist reviewing a recent book by another (but more critical) evolutionist, says:
We cannot identify ancestors or “missing links,” and we cannot devise testable theories to explain how particular episodes of evolution came about. Gee is adamant that all the popular stories about how the first amphibians conquered the dry land, how the birds developed wings and feathers for flying, how the dinosaurs went extinct, and how humans evolved from apes are just products of our imagination, driven by prejudices and preconceptions.
No, we should force our kids to believe they came from a rock. Hence the evolution theory. This will definately make them feel worthy of living and won’t go shooting up the neighborhood.
Line 5 yes. Teach both religions.