ickabod

Some colleagues and I are presently working on a project to incorporate a critical thinking class into the highschool (or earlier) curiculum with the hope of teaching our children to criticize everything they learn and to provide them with tools to build a proper moral framework without the use of theology.

We believe that, because children are so impressionable, we should take advantage of this and teach the not to be impressionable.

Unfortunately, one of the deciding factors in a childs belief system is his/her parents. Too many children rule out other possibilites of philisophical thinking because their parents insist on Religion being the driving for of a childs logic. Perhaps, with the aid of this course, children of the next generation will create new ideas which differ from that of their parents. Or mabye they will deem their parents teaching factual and will simply improve upon them. Either way it's a win/win situation. What do you think?

phlebas

Worthy cause. Good luck.

However, since this has nothing to do directly with the existence of God, I think it would be a better fit in the Science & Skepticism forum.