Thank God!
This would be a lot more exciting if the Kansas Board of Education didn't swing back and forth like a one-armed monkey.
This is the belly buster quote of the day:
“I feel like if you give two sides of something, most people are intelligent enough to make up their own minds,” said Ryan Cole, a 26-year-old farmer and horse trainer from Smith County, along the Nebraska line.
Yeah. Right. How about we teach all the sides that have actual evidence backing them up. That would leave us with, whoops! One side. And I don't even trust that if that's the only side we teach "most people" would be intelligent enough to get it right.
Yeah, I'm an elitist. I believe willfully ignorant people aren't as good as the rest of us.
2 comments:
"If 'elitist' just means, 'not the dumbest motherfucker in the room, then I'll be an elitist." hee hee
Sure, "most people" are intelligent enough to make up their own minds, but that still doesn't make their conclusions correct. Especially when one of the "sides" they have to choose from amounts to religious fantasy dressed up to look "scientific."
Clearly Mr. Cole has never tried to teach, or he would understand how poorly mix-the-crap-together-with-the-real-science-and-let-the-students-sort-it-out-for-themselves works as a teaching method.
Oh, I forgot to add this:
Willfully ignorant people *aren't* as good as the rest of us.
There should be a Common Sense Commandment, and I would vote for it to be chiseled onto the walls of every building in America: "Thou Shalt Not be willfully ignorant, nor seek to impose your willful ignorance on others."
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