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reply posted on 28-8-2009 @ 08:53 AM by thisguyrighthere
I'm not sure how religion blocks learning math and I'm not sure how much religion influences school. I dont recall any when I was in school.

For the sake of not getting into some stupid argument over religion I'll just give it to you that religion hinders math and our schools are filled to the brim with it. I dont see what difference it makes because that would only be one factor. There are also these school systems who pass everyone, have dropped the possibility of failure, teach to the lowest common denominator thereby frustrating and or dumbing down the capable students, schools that invest more time and money on technology and toys rather than getting proper educators, etc...

Have you read
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America?

Then, in a global economy, where do all the smart people go? To the job in the country that will pay them the most. When employees are traded globally it would take a long, long time for the local, poor, community or country to see any return on their investment. Unless there were some incentive for the educated individual to remain in their home region but few people will rise to the level of being fought over across the world and just stay in some craphole eating rice day in and day out.

The funny thing is standards were much higher back in the early days of the republic. Students needed multiple languages, multiple disciplines and still labored their family farms. Those who could afford school anyway. Ironically, there was more of a daily religious influence on them then there is on most now. I still havent met any real person in my day to day life who caed one way or the other about religion. I dont know where all these zealots outside of television and internet complaining.


reply posted on 28-8-2009 @ 09:19 AM by thisguyrighthere
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Right. Okay. So you want to harp on religion. Good for you. I gave it to you that you were right in my post so this very thing wouldn't happen. So you've obviously read the first sentence of my post. The rest?

You want to raise educational standards, IQ's and sustain a high-tech work force that will raise the quality of life across the board or do you want to bitch about religion? You lose ancestors to the Inquisition or something?


reply posted on 28-8-2009 @ 09:24 AM by Kaytagg
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You would be hard pressed not to find a person who didn't lose ancestors to religious nonsense. Religion is responsible for more deaths than old age.

I want to see our IQ/science/math scores improve, but first people have to realize that faith is the antithesis of all those things.

You can't pass an IQ test on faith. You can't validate a scientific theory on faith. You can't solve a math problem on faith (1+1+1=1? That's faith!).

So yes. I want to bitch about religion, first and foremost, because I see it as the biggest impediment to improving those scores. And it is.
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