Moonlight Graham Posted February 23, 2013 Report Posted February 23, 2013 I agree. Kids aren't learning abot social justice at home. Kids are not learning about the dangers of climate change and how humans are acceleratin climate change, at home. Kids are not learn ing that canada's democracy is bing eroded. Do you have emperical evidence to back this up? Quote "All generalizations are false, including this one." - Mark Twain Partisanship is a disease of the intellect.
Bonam Posted February 23, 2013 Report Posted February 23, 2013 Do you have emperical evidence to back this up? Why teach about empirical evidence when you can teach about "social justice"? Such irrelevant outmoded concepts as evidence are no longer necessary in today's modern education system, which creates the evidence-free thinkers that our society needs. Quote
BC_chick Posted February 23, 2013 Report Posted February 23, 2013 Why teach about empirical evidence when you can teach about "social justice"? Such irrelevant outmoded concepts as evidence are no longer necessary in today's modern education system, which creates the evidence-free thinkers that our society needs. "Social justice" is not ust thrown out there as a theory, empirical evidence is used to back up the hypothesis. You can refute the stats or the manner in which they were attained, but the fact remains that it's not just theory. I've studied both the Arts as well as Commerce and I can honestly say that commerce textbooks throw out way more theory as 'fact' as the arts do. Quote It's kind of the worst thing that any humans could be doing at this time in human history. Other than that, it's fine." Bill Nye on Alberta Oil Sands
Michael Hardner Posted February 23, 2013 Report Posted February 23, 2013 I'm all for getting students to ask questions and search for the answers. On this subject roughly 93% of climate scientists are on board with anthropogenic climate change. It's a contentious political issue so I just don't want to see yet another thread turn into a climate argument. It's contentious but that's the politics not the facts. You could turn the classroom into a political debate, but given that we can't even do that properly here a lot of the time I doubt that the classroom could pull it off. They'd be better off debating issues that are relevant to them, as long as they're taught the touchstones of proper debate. Quote Looks like someone has a new patronizing catch phrase ! Michael Hardner
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