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IT'S STILL A GOOD IDEA TO REDUCE CO2 EMISSIONS
I'm recommending this post to a group of educators wrestling with ways to teach controversial topics. It is quite rare to find someone not 100% on one side or the other about the facts. Everybody likes to quote Daniel Patrick Moynihan saying "Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts," without appreciating how hard it is to settle what the facts are. That's why we distinguish between the trier of facts (the jury) and the trier of law (the judge) in court. It is also why we have such elaborate procedures to keep bias out of juries, because bias is well known to distort the perception of facts.
If you would be interested in joining our discussion about how to teach controversies, and how children should learn to tell fact from fiction, e-mail me privately.
Comment Posted By Edward Cherlin On 4.12.2009 @ 21:42
