"Didn't your father even bother to teach you that much?" I freeze in the chair, waiting for something much worse to happen, but Kinsella just stands there, locked in the wash of his own speech.
Maybe that's why I didn't bother to teach her Urdu, my mother tongue, despite mum's protests that without it, my daughter would lose a part of her heritage.
All of these considerations, of course, are—or at any rate ought to be familiar to readers of Evolution: Education and Outreach, and it is clear how they help to answer the question under consideration, "Why even bother to teach evolution to high school students?
- What you have to think about that video is that I think they would listen to that and go "oh Darwinism is just rubbish and why even bother to teach me that?"... Like you say they just hear something and accept it as fact.
During a panel discussion following a recent screening of No Dinosaurs In Heaven (http://www.nodinosaursinheaven.org/), a new film about the creationism/evolution controversy, one of us was asked by someone in the audience, "Why even bother to teach evolution to high school students?
A minority indicated confidence in their acceptance of evolution and prepared to challenge what they perceived as an attempt to advance creationism: - What you have to think about that video is that I think they would listen to that and go "oh Darwinism is just rubbish and why even bother to teach me that?"... Like you say they just hear something and accept it as fact.
If so, we might also seek to develop drugs to treat drowning -- while removing the fences from around pools, the lifeguards from the beaches, and never bothering to teach anyone to swim.
The Dr. is a poor linguist himself, and he hasn't bothered to learn the languages he has taught.
Yet, we have an education system now that barely bothers to teach our children poetry or grammar anymore, but instead is forcing educators to focus on just meeting the narrow requirements for improving test scores.
