>>10861189That's bullshit though.
Most people aren't intelligent enough to use science for anything.
A more honest version would just spell out what high marks get you entry into.
History and science are so politically corrected now that they're basically worthless if you're not willing to do a huge amount of supplementary reading (that you could do outside the classroom anyway). School is worthless other than as a route to gain access to networks and qualifications, plus to perhaps meet some intelligent people. Or if you like sleeping around. Although that could be better achieved by just socialising and going to bars.
>>10861270This is a far more honest answer.
The whole thing is silly anyway. This is just a way for a teacher to lie to students to get them to sit still so that he has an easier life and better careers prospects.
t. Education student at a major university.
>implying that more than a couple of students in the class will need to explicitly employ the scientific method If school was as enthralling as it's cracked up to be (yes, including with more recent techniques to make it more engaging), it wouldn't be mandatory.
Educators are paid liars. We're taught that our primary roles are to:
socialise students into broader society
be social justice activists (yes, this is what we're explicitly told in a mandatory course, yes the words "social justice" and "activists")
The approach we're taught to knowledge is also that we're meant to teach:
1. in accordance with state policy (including in its social aims, which is what we're focussed on two semesters in)
2. in ways that will empower PoC, and if that means we have to bury information, lie, selectively frame things etc. then that's moral
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