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Good education and conversion : Comments

By Michael Jensen, published 11/11/2015

Should children in government schools be subjected to ideas and ideologies in such a way as they are persuaded by them?

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Schools should not be teaching any idealogies. They should be teaching students to be literate, numerate, and well-read so that they can make up their own minds about side subjects in their own time. Schools should be preparing students for work. Politics, feminist movements and life in general are for after standard education is finished: if anyone is interested, that is. There should be no ratbag, activist teachers preaching their own lunatic ideas to kids.
Posted by ttbn, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 9:16:13 AM
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No! They must be persuaded to keep an open mind on all things, until suchtimes as there is incontrovertible proof that leaves no question unanswered. And that is not very much!

This is the foundation stone of critical and independent thinking they will need to live a revealed life. Given an unexamined life or fixed belief system is just not worth living!

But particularly where the student is persuaded that they have a God given right to judge others or even take a life or the innocence of a child!?

An open mind is just a critical as the open parachute that prevents one from hitting the end of a comparatively short journey unharmed! It's not the fall that hurts, just the sudden stop at the end!

In any event it is not the destination that counts, but the journey! And if you learn lessons like, you are never beaten until you quit, or what doesn't kill you just makes you stronger, then you will focus on your dreams and make them your number one priority!

And if you come to your end without success like most of us; it will not be for lack of resolve or trying.

And given at that end your judge may well be the man or woman in the mirror, your will not be found wanting or stubbornly stupid, the result of early undesirable inculcation of this or that ideology/false belief?
Rhrosty.
Posted by Rhrosty, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 9:53:18 AM
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Look at the fruit of the systems in place and you will get your answer. Suicide, drugs, perversion, rebellion, total lack of respect, feminist dogma, order from chaos fantasy, all regular feaures of a godless ideology. No wonder either unbelievers are flocking in masses to something better.
Posted by runner, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 10:06:25 AM
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If the parents agree then proselytising is OK - but then they should also pay for it: what gives anyone a right to proselytise using mine and your (being tax-payers) hard-earned money?
Posted by Yuyutsu, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 10:50:49 AM
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It is indoctrination.

Parents should be demanding logic and philosophy, and a deeper English literature course.
Posted by onthebeach, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 11:01:40 AM
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All children should be expected to discuss open ended questions among themselves for about an hour each week with only supervision from the "teacher".
After about 50 hours of such discussion the intellectual capacity of an average student would improve by between 6 and 7%.
The students would also show more respect to one another and their teachers and they will make better decisions throughout their life.
This concept is the opposite of teaching of dogma.
Several studies have now confirmed the benefits of such an approach from early school age. Children from dis-functional households particularly benefit.
Posted by Foyle, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 12:05:52 PM
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