[Osx-nutters] Nat'l Science Teachers Reje ct Offers for "An Inconvenient Truth"

[Kevin Callahan]

On Nov 30, 2006, at 9:36 PM, David Cake wrote:

>> Then Exxon's involvement or  or not, the movie is not a proper  
>> 'lesson' to be shown in the schools,  unless what you are doing is  
>> pushing a "a particular point of view"
>
> 	Actually, Chuck, a large percentage of what passes for education  
> consists of exactly this - if it is correct (and its probably at  
> least as correct as much of the curriculum - more so if you live in  
> Kansas) then its didactic nature isn't always an issue.
> 	Its certainly far more factual than what passes for a lot of  
> public health messages, for example, most of which are presented in  
> a manner than strongly pushes a single point of view.

Yeah -- at my H.S., a private Catholic H.S., we were told just  
"thinking of kissing your girl" was a vial sin.  Meanwhile, our  
teacher (a Catholic priest), would get up in front of class and  
apologize for his recent spate of masturbation practice.   No priest  
ever apologized for whacking our asses with a sawn-off log, though ,  
for a neighbor student's wandering eyes.

That's how I got my education.

K



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