Children, they are important.

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This is not directly a "Creationist" Question/Debate, but because the majority of Creationist are Creationis because they have been indoctrinated as children, I think it is worth asking here.

Children are our future, they are important. I think we all can agree to this. Children should be treated properly and have, as well as possible, the ability to fullfill their life and enjoy this world of ours.

This means, according to me, that children have rights.


Do you consider that Children should have the right, whatever the parents religious beliefs or opinions are, to a Proper Education?

If you agree with this rather rethorical Question, would you not consider that indoctrinated your child into believing what you believe a wrong-doing, rather then letting them have access to a proper education learning about facts, examples such as Gravity, Evolution and Spherical Earth, even if this goes against your personal belief?

To answer the question I do think it's good for children to have access to a variety of views and scientific info and this should not be restricted just because a parent doesn't believe or like it. Honestly though, I do not see much good coming from simply changing the information that children come into contact with. The first step in a "real" education to me would be guiding children to being able to think critically (which you alluded to in the OP) and to avoid falling into the trap of assumption. I think as a whole we assume way too much. I see people very often who argue in favor of something with such intensity, as if they know for a fact that they are right, when in reality it is a very open issue with really no right or wrong answer. This is the trap that we should try to help our children avoid and all else would likely start to fall in place in terms of the information accessible to future generations. I do not think that the current methods used in schools are very effective because a large portion of it is simply memorizing answers often without a real understanding of the information at hand and how these answers came to be accepted as true. So unless the way children take in and perceive info changes from what we currently see, simply providing new information will probably do little good.