The Importance of Education

[moggie]

There's a cool article over at The Panda's Thumb on the importance of teaching kids the truth:

Every now and then, I find myself so frustrated with the whole anti-evolution situation that I am tempted to simply wash my hands of the whole affair and walk away. After all, in the grand scheme of things, why does it really matter what kids get taught about biology. Most of them are never going to use the information when they grow up, and any creationism-induced knowledge deficits can be rectified later on in the education of those who are going to go on in fields related to the biological sciences. OK, so it’s nice to teach things that aren’t massively wrong, and all that, but is it really so important as to justify all this fuss?

Last week, I got a lesson on just exactly why all this really is so important.

If, like him, you've ever felt jaded by the seemingly never-ending evolution-vs-creationism debate, go read the rest of the article, which is quite uplifting:

http://www.pandasthumb.org/pt-archives/000866.html

[Bill McBlueState]

1. thanks!

That was an encouraging article. Talking to kids about science helps to remind me why we do science at all.