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Originally Posted by kennyc
I've also said this numerous times. Education should not be about Liberal or Conservative or Religious, it should be about the unbiased truth as best we know it and should be taught in such a way as to encourage the student to ask questions, to learn to think and to learn how to get to the truth, the facts or any matter.
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Who sits in judgment of what truth is? To some, that the world is 6k years old represents "truth", to others, 4 billion years. (There's not much middle ground on this one.
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The whole controversy is about deciding which "truth" to promote. The arbiter seem to be democracy (50% +1).