RE: letters of recommendation and 'belief' in evolution

[Jeffrey Nagelbush]

Rick Froman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

In fact, when education's mission is to shape belief, it is called indoctrination. Especially if the education is considered to be a failure if beliefs have not been modified.


Is this always true? If a physicist is attempting to get students to understand how the physical world works and students, at the end of the class, still have the same naive pysical beliefs they had before (which, unfortunately, is typical), is that a failure of education? And if the physics teacher succeeds in getting students to have more accurate beliefs about how the world works, is that indoctrination?

Jeff Nagelbush
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