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Ask a teacher on Summer Break
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RE: Ask a teacher on Summer Break
(July 21, 2017 at 9:32 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: Care to comment on de Grasse Tyson's recent tweet that the rise of flat-Earthers is some of the best evidence for the failure of our education system?

I think his comments are more likely to lead to the rise of flat-earthers than our education system.  The idea that our education system is failing is the part these flat-earthers see.  They don't care about the rest of it--so in a way it validates their opinions without even meaning to  I mean for starters..  you learn about Christopher Columbus and Magellan in school--as early as elementary school actually.  In 1492, Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue.  The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.  These are typically things schoolchildren learn.

Our school system isn't quite up to snuff--but it's getting better.  And attitudes that it's 'failing' prevail, allowing people to ignore facts because they are presented by 'educated' people.  It allows them to say that schools are nothing more than indoctrination centers.  (And that's exactly what they say).

It'd be like saying "The fact that we haven't cured cancer is the best evidence for the failure of science."  It's not fair to say science is failing despite the advancements it's made just because it hasn't reached an ultimate goal.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Ask a teacher on Summer Break - by Cecelia - July 9, 2017 at 11:24 am
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RE: Ask a teacher on Summer Break - by Cecelia - July 17, 2017 at 6:11 pm
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RE: Ask a teacher on Summer Break - by Cecelia - July 17, 2017 at 10:41 pm
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RE: Ask a teacher on Summer Break - by Cecelia - July 21, 2017 at 9:26 pm
RE: Ask a teacher on Summer Break - by popeyespappy - July 21, 2017 at 9:32 pm
RE: Ask a teacher on Summer Break - by Cecelia - July 23, 2017 at 9:44 pm
RE: Ask a teacher on Summer Break - by popeyespappy - July 24, 2017 at 7:46 am
RE: Ask a teacher on Summer Break - by popeyespappy - July 24, 2017 at 12:51 pm
RE: Ask a teacher on Summer Break - by Cecelia - July 24, 2017 at 1:32 pm
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