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Ant-Knowledge Thrust of Education
by Glenn Woiceshyn
Dear Editor,
Re: "The Anti-Knowledge Thrust of Modern Education is Wrong"--by David
Frum--The Financial Post--Oct/25-27/97
David Frum provided an excellent summary of how modern educators, armed with Progressive
pedagogy, harm children.
One perfect illustration is Frum's "whole science" example, where young
children are asked to form opinions on highly abstract, controversial and ideologically/politically
driven issues such as "global warming" and "overpopulation,"
instead of properly teaching children the basics of science. This encourages a child
to draw conclusions without having the knowledge necessary to do so objectively.
If a conclusion isn't drawn from knowledge grounded logically in fact, it's drawn
on "it's true cause I feel it."
A child who holds convictions divorced from reality will end up frustrated and feeling
alienated from the world, and will desperately seek security from others. Since his
(or her) knowledge isn't logically grounded in fact, he's more than willing to alter
his "opinions" in order to please others. He eventually becomes an insecure,
mindless conformist (and an emotionalist) waiting for a gang leader or Fuhrer to
tell him what to think and do.
Is it any surprise that students have become more ignorant, illiterate, illogical,
insecure and gang-oriented over the past few decades?
Tragically, parents today are far more protective about their children's physical
well-being (especially in the wake of extensive scaremongering by environmentalists)
than their intellectual well-being.
Best Premises,
Glenn Woiceshyn
© 1997 Glenn Woiceshyn. All rights reserved.
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