Comments on: Will schoolkids be stuck with creationist textbook “supplements”? https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/04/27/will-schoolkids-be-stuck-with/ Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:54:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: pluky https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/04/27/will-schoolkids-be-stuck-with/#comment-502450 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:54:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/04/27/will-schoolkids-be-stuck-with/#comment-502450 @travcollier

But many of the private schools in Texas exist to teach this, and other, Christianist crap without state interference.

]]> By: travcollier https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/04/27/will-schoolkids-be-stuck-with/#comment-502449 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:45:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/04/27/will-schoolkids-be-stuck-with/#comment-502449 Ugh… well it may be good news for private schools in Texas, cause if they keep doing this the public schools will be utter shit.

The “teach the controversy” thing is powerful though. A very good way of teaching science is to focus on teaching historically important (and almost always useful) theories which are actually wrong, and making a point of how and why we know they are wrong. The classic example for me… Newtonian physics, wrong but very useful. Most of foundational biology is naturally presented this way, which provides a good narrative structure and also teaches the real scientific method (and critical thinking) at the same time.

Sadly, it seems that we have to become more and more authoritarian to fight off the damn authoritarians.

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