Dirty Penguin
Master Of Ceremony
Do you know how long it would take to teach these myths? Kids have more important things to learn than than this. Let the church teach it or let them lean it in college....
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Should ID be taught in public schools?
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Do you know how long it would take to teach these myths? Kids have more important things to learn than than this. Let the church teach it or let them lean it in college....
Jeremy Mason
Well-Known Member
sighs...
blackout
Violet.
How many of us never go on to do ANYTHING that EVER requires higher math,
for example,
and it is forgotten as soon as it's over,
because we never really had the aptitude/interest for the subject to begin with?
How many wasted hours of a person's life experience?
Why then is algebra and beyond FORCED on us?
When we might be studying something else instead
that we know will be pertinent to our future studies/profession?
I will never understand this.
Why some subjects are lifted up on high,
and others (arts, philosophy, comparitive religion... whatever)
are deemed "extras" if you're lucky.
We are not all cut out to do the same things,
and we can't all know and study everything.
Why not give highschoolers the freedom to begin specializing?
I don't get it.
(I am NOT talking about ID btw. Just in general.)
for example,
and it is forgotten as soon as it's over,
because we never really had the aptitude/interest for the subject to begin with?
How many wasted hours of a person's life experience?
Why then is algebra and beyond FORCED on us?
When we might be studying something else instead
that we know will be pertinent to our future studies/profession?
I will never understand this.
Why some subjects are lifted up on high,
and others (arts, philosophy, comparitive religion... whatever)
are deemed "extras" if you're lucky.
We are not all cut out to do the same things,
and we can't all know and study everything.
Why not give highschoolers the freedom to begin specializing?
I don't get it.
(I am NOT talking about ID btw. Just in general.)
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angellous_evangellous
Guest
It would work in nicely in the "History of Kansas" course.
Wandered Off
Sporadic Driveby Member
The state Legislature passed a law in 2007 allowing Bible courses to be offered as an elective, so it's not compulsory.
What I find ironic is that this was pushed by a certain small segment who appear to be wanting to subtly gain converts. Problem is, by doing it this way in school, there won't be any theological gymnastics to explain away horrible stories (if taken literally) like what happened to the Amalekites or to the Egyptian first born. I think they may inadvertently turn more kids off to the idea than would otherwise have been the case.
Wandered Off
Sporadic Driveby Member
Algebra can do wonders for teaching abstract thinking, which is useful even if you aren't substituting for X. Not to say you couldn't get it some other way...
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angellous_evangellous
Guest
"Let no one enter who does not know geometry"
gnomon
Well-Known Member
I believe that comparative religion can be taught successfully.
My point is that Intelligent Design has nothing to do with comparative religion, philosophy or science.
blackout
Violet.
No one ever offered me the "some other way" electives.
Oh how happy would I have been.....
I have heard it said as a matter of fact
that music makes you better at math.
So why not devote half those higher math school hours
to music instead, as a prerequisite to algebra and geometry.
What's that? Some of you don't want to take music?
It doesn't interest you? You're not good at it?
You don't see it as being useful in your future?
When your interests and aptitudes sit on the side of the academic cirriculum of the day,
how lucky for you.
But now I guess I am almost completely off topic.
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Jeremy Mason
Well-Known Member
No one ever offered me the "some other way" electives.
Oh how happy would I have been.....
I have heard it said as a matter of fact
that music makes you better at math.
So why not devote half those higher math school hours
to music instead, as a prerequisite to algebra and geometry.
What's that? Some of you don't want to take music?
It doesn't interest you? You're not good at it?
You don't see it as being useful in your future?
When your interests and aptitudes sit on the side of the academic cirriculum of the day,
how lucky for you.
But now I guess I am almost completely off topic.
Amen.
logician
Well-Known Member
ALmost certainly not consistently at the secondary level.
Leave it at the college level.
painted wolf
Grey Muzzle
I had a very well balanced comparative religion/history course in High School.
It was aimed at teaching the history of the 'non-western' world and the influence of religious movements though history.
wa:do
It was aimed at teaching the history of the 'non-western' world and the influence of religious movements though history.
wa:do
Autodidact
Intentionally Blank
Of course, if you had a course in comparative religion, you would also include atheism.
I wish we had a substantive comparative religion curriculum throughout the US.
painted wolf
Grey Muzzle
Agreed, I'd love to see a program like the class I took. Such classes not only helped me appreciate other cultures, but opened my eyes to the world outside the US borders.
While US/Western history is important (and is for all practical purposes the only history taught in any depth), we live a wider world and our children need to know about it through more than the bleary view of television.
wa:do
While US/Western history is important (and is for all practical purposes the only history taught in any depth), we live a wider world and our children need to know about it through more than the bleary view of television.
wa:do
I've mentioned in passing my dinner discussion on the value of religious literacy. I only wish I had somehow taped it. It was memorable.
But atheism isn't a religion or an organised movement or a historical entity. It's just non-belief.
Unless, of course, hers is.
darkendless
Guardian of Asgaard
But atheism isn't a religion or an organised movement or a historical entity. It's just non-belief.
If you're going to educate young minds about religions, why not include lack-of-religion? Comparative religious studies could make up a childs mind if they're interested enough, might as well include a bit of everything.
crystalonyx
Well-Known Member
But there are many teachers who cannot teach this subject w/o bias,especially in the bible belt, just because you had a good experience doesn't mean everyone would.