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The world of education is being massively attacked by creationist circles while we are celebrating this year the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, the English natural scientist whose evolution theory has profoundly revolutionized biology.
In the United States, many think that schools should teach both evolution theory and « intelligent design ». More
A soldier is ready to kill for whatever reason, for his education on one side and the voice of his hierarchy on the other side have persuaded him of the legitimacy and necessity of eliminating a fellow human for a « just » cause. The injunction is very old and its recurrence makes it one of the most sadly famous scenarios of the history of civilizations.
During the Roman Empire, writes Jean Flori, Christians behaved as good citizens while refusing to serve as armed soldiers. The writings of Origen, Tertullian or Hyppolitus of Rome witness this. Thus, it is said, a soldier can become a Christian if he commits not to kill, even if ordered so by his chiefs.More
Here we witness a come-back og grades, there we see the gradual dismantling of a reform of elementary school based on the implementation of learning cycles. Facing educational projects which give children enough time to discover and learn, there’s impatience about the few apparent results of this method in the short term. This is because in general it is believed that structured frontal teaching yields the fastest, most solid and most durable results in learning. However, behind these more or less demagogical claims the aim is to shed discredit on a style of education which questions the very foundations of authority abuse and blunders of the « hard way». This said, is there not, as some have written, a non-admitted idea of fighting not much failure at school but rather failing pupils ? More
