Teaching our Children - What's wrong with greed?

neatoburrito
Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:17:15 +0000

It’s so funny that you give that example, that is what she had a question about! My daughter was concerned about the validity of a study where the results had not been able to be duplicated and whether confounding variables had been present or not, but the teacher just wanted her to take it all as dogma.

I don’t trust scientists who have no room for questions or the possibility of error - on either side of any issue. I can’t count how many times I have told my children, “Well, maybe we’re wrong. Always leave that possibility open.” I guess my daughter naively expects the same from her teachers. Of course, this is the same teacher who had a test question that, when answered correctly, said that Watson, Crick and Wilkins won the Nobel PEACE prize in 1953…hmmm, silly me. I thought that belonged to Charles Marshall and that the discovery of the structure of DNA earned the prize for medicine some time in the early 60’s.

sheesh!