"Dewey Dykstra, Jr." wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> 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!
[snip]

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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