Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Viva Education!
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The Today Show has featured its 'Education Nation' theme all this week (educationnation.com). Hmm. This tends to confirm my theory that I live in a world full of idiots. I knew it!
And in a related series of reports, CNN had this interesting quiz on the subject of religious education, while ABC NEWS had this interesting piece on the same subject of religious education. Not to be outdone, CBS NEWS capped it off with this interesting piece on that very same subject of religious education.
It would seem to follow that America is uniformly too ignorant, too religious, and heading too rapidly downhill as a result. Interestingly, the more people knew about the subject of religion, the more likely it was that those same people were Atheists or Agnostics!
I just took this 15 question quiz (from the Pew poll) and scored 100% (but I must admit that I benefited from one wrong answer from a previous poll (the CNN quiz) - the question concerning whether a teacher could quote The Bible for 'literary reasons.'
The more you know about religion, the more likely you are to reject religion. The more you know about science the more likely you are to embrace science. Viva education!
The Today Show has featured its 'Education Nation' theme all this week (educationnation.com). Hmm. This tends to confirm my theory that I live in a world full of idiots. I knew it!
And in a related series of reports, CNN had this interesting quiz on the subject of religious education, while ABC NEWS had this interesting piece on the same subject of religious education. Not to be outdone, CBS NEWS capped it off with this interesting piece on that very same subject of religious education.
It would seem to follow that America is uniformly too ignorant, too religious, and heading too rapidly downhill as a result. Interestingly, the more people knew about the subject of religion, the more likely it was that those same people were Atheists or Agnostics!
I just took this 15 question quiz (from the Pew poll) and scored 100% (but I must admit that I benefited from one wrong answer from a previous poll (the CNN quiz) - the question concerning whether a teacher could quote The Bible for 'literary reasons.'
The more you know about religion, the more likely you are to reject religion. The more you know about science the more likely you are to embrace science. Viva education!
