"expose people to different schools of thought" - no prob, George!

[ulysses]

"I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought," Bush said. "You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes."

Finally! George Bush and I are on the same page regarding education!

You see, I can do this regarding "intelligent design". I do it all the time with other subjects, particularly during social studies.

When the United States was founded, only landowning white men were considered capable of voting.

See? I just exposed my class to a different school of thought!

Some people look at the natural world and feel that a supernatural entity must have created what they don't feel can be understood by science.

Different school of thought. Easy peazy!

This simplifies my life a great deal. Normally, I wouldn't even bring up something like intelligent design in the classroom, out of respect for students' religious beliefs. Since Our Only President requires it of me, though, I'll be happy to expose my students to ID as best I understand it (a quirk of belief) and move on.

:evilgrin:

[madeline_con]

1. But is our children learning?

The burning question...

[ulysses]

2. they is, they is.

:D

[iamjoy]

3. I Think You Should Bring Up Other Views

of creation, like the ones by other religions.

Different schools of thought.

And hey, if you want to bring religion into science class, fair is fair. Talk about the half baked man. From a scientific perspective, that is just as realistic as the version of creation of man described in Genesis:2 (but not Genesis:1)

[FreedomAngel82]

5. What I think

is if a school really really really wants this should get the thought and opinions of the students themselves. Do a survey of every student and see if they really really want this type of class. Then they can make it optional. At my school we had the ability to take a Bible History class. The teacher couldn't preach to us and it was mostly a history type of class. I personally enjoyed it. But if a school REALLY wanted this (the students, not the parents) maybe they could do something like that. We still had to take the basic classes like English, the various science courses, various math etc. But this class was an optional credit class. :shrug:

[ulysses]

7. if I'm ever required to go into it in detail,

I'll do it in social studies. It'll be fun. :)

[madeline_con]

8. "... the ones by other religions ..."

So many are almost identical, just the turtle, egg, sphere of causal thought are changed to make them seem different.

It would be interesting to present the fact that nothing in Christianity is new.

[wli]

9. if you really want to embarrass them, Ugaritic literature will do

Particularly the part where it's been used to correct mistranslations of the Old Testament.

Oh, yes, the part where it's a precursor to Hebrew beliefs will also prove interesting, like the 1:1 name correspondence for supernatural entities.

[madeline_con]

10. "... name correspondence for supernatural entities..."

I'm not familiar with that particular "school of thought", but according to the "Esoteric Alphabet", Rah, Yahweh, Allah, Elohim, Ishua, Jesus, and all of them are based on the same syllabic sounds, and are variations thereof.

Religious know-it-alls hate those who know aliitle something themsleves. In all the forums I've discussed these things, they count on the 'audience' being ignorant.

[wli]

11. absolutely

The part that's particularly fun to make them squirm with is demonstrating direct heritage from a polytheistic belief system.

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. Ahh.

:evilgrin: indeed!

[KurtNYC]

6. By "people" he means young children

And by "different schools of thought" he means only that the children of middle of the road Americans should be told that their parents are wrong and that they will spend eternity in hell fire if they don't shape up.

So in a nutshell, he means that children of jewish Americans, atheist Americans, liberal Christians, agnostics, and Christmas-Christians should be taught ultra right-wing hypo-Christian dogma in place of science.

[TalkingDog]

12. And then there's the Flying Spaghetti Monster

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Creationism
An Uncyclopedic look at ID


http://www.venganza.org/
And then there's the Flying Spaghetti Monster

[ulysses]

13. I'll leave that for the home ec teacher.

:D