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Originally Posted by Mazer
students should be taught to believe without being taught what to believe
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Originally Posted by albed
Completely absurd. How in the world would you go about doing that?
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Originally Posted by Mazer
Really you don't have to teach people to believe in things
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Is this your version of explaining yourself, just switching from one pronouncement to another without noticing the contradiction?
All you seem able to do is believe things without understanding them. You can't explain what you believe or why you believe it, and you can't know if what you believe is true or not because you just don't understand; though I doubt that you really care. You just seem to adopt whatever belief you've been told instead of figuring out for yourself what the truth is.
So belief for you and many others is just a poor substitute for understanding and teaching students to believe instead of understand simply ensures that they will be unable to distinguish between truth and falsehood and so will be easily manipulated by those who tell them what to believe.
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Originally Posted by Mazer
Faith is every bit as important as knowledge
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What a perfect statement to demonstrate your belief in a falsehood with no understanding at all of how absurd it is. Do you think you could survive for any time at all without knowledge of how to obtain food, water, shelter, etc.? Can you explain how faith is in any way necessary for survival or any aspect of modern living?
But somebody told you to believe that, and lacking the ability to understand, that is all you can do.