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"Dewey Dykstra, Jr." wrote:
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> Students' (and society's) problem with evolution theory might also have to
> do with the way science is taught to even the youngest as if we are
> indoctrinating possible future professional scientists with the Truth.
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> Do this for long enough and you convince most they are not smart enough and
> most never change their understanding of the phenomena. Gee! That's the
> outcome of Science "Education" now! Go figure!
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I think another Dewey (John...) would have concurred with this.
Lawrence Kohlberg spoke of "the hidden curriculum": what
the school teaches by example, as opposed to what it says
it is doing "on the surface" (albeit, taken seriously,
even some of the propaganda is not appealing: "Come
here and work hard!" "No thank you.").
We will not *inspire* students to love science
(or anything else, for that matter -- except perhaps
"being left alone"...), by continually making them
objects of measurement (aka "tests", etc.),
instead of inducting them into the noble order of
*measurers*.
Man is the subject of the world, but everywhere he is
an object. (sound familiar?)
+\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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