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I  think the issue has grown beyond science to a broader antipathy towards intellectual pursuits in general, as Rick Santorum's recent quote suggests.  Here it is if you missed it:

"There are good decent men and women; who go out and work hard every day; and put their skills to test that aren’t taught by some liberal college professor trying to indoctrinate them."

What Stephen is proposing is exactly what Santorum objects to—the possibility that people might actually learn to think for themselves.  It is pretty amazing that a major national candidate would dare to make a statement like that.  You would think he would be laughed out of the campaign. But unfortunately no.  We have our work cut out for us, guys.
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> Jennie -
> My point was not that we should just take away dogma and permit the vacuum to be filled with whatever people wanted, but that we should completely rethink the teaching of a bolus of content through rote learning, and replace it with teaching kids how to think, deepen their understanding, and master asking questions and seeking answers. We are trying so hard to turn out encyclopaedias rather than thinking adults that we completely miss the opportunity to teach them the most important things, which, indeed, aren't even things. 
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> Stephen Miles Uzzo, PhD.

Chuck Howarth, Vice President
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