Brad, Dewey
I do not agree that there is a necessarily a problem here. At this moment we
exist in societies which have the highest level of knowledge about science and
the best scientifically educated population ever. The issue is perhaps that the
best science like the best contemporary philosophy radically displaces human
beings from the centre of things. This displacement is deeply discomforting and
has a similar effect to the questioning of identity that psychoanalysis is
centred on. The issue is not scientific education but the questioning of
identity....



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"Brad McCormick, Ed.D." wrote:

> "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
>
> --
>   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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