The Question Presented » Education http://www.questionpresented.com (the blawg formerly known as Law School Chronicles) Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:40:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Selective Truth http://www.questionpresented.com/2008/12/11/selective-truth/ http://www.questionpresented.com/2008/12/11/selective-truth/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:32:05 +0000 Christopher Meredith http://www.questionpresented.com/?p=47 In a culture that recoils at the very idea of teaching school children about the God of the Bible, one has to wonder about said culture’s self-appointed commitment to “truth” when one reads a story like this. So what do you think? Is it the job of educators to impart nothing more than empirically verifiable data or is there room for cultural traditions, even the fabricated ones?

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Thoughts?

Personally, I cannot see the educational value in taking school children to any personal life event of a teacher. I would object to children being taken to any wedding during school hours. To be charitable, perhaps this was a way for the teacher to avoid having to take a personal day.

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